Twitter: 70.1 million followers in total for the 20 LaLiga Santander clubs (April 2018)

The 20 clubs of the 2017-18 LaLiga Santander season have a cumulative total of 70.1 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data recorded by News Tank Football on 01/04/2018. This result makes LaLiga Santander the second most popular European Top 5 league on Twitter, with an average of 3.5 million followers per club behind the Premier League (3.66 million).

Real Madrid CF is the most followed LaLiga Santander club with more than 29.93 million followers, ahead of FC Barcelona (28.58 million). The two Spanish clubs, which are the only clubs in Europe with more than 25 million followers each (only the main account is taken into account), comprise 83.4% of the total followers of LaLiga Santander clubs, and have more followers between them than the 58 clubs of the Serie A TIM, Ligue 1 Conforama and Bundesliga combined (58.5 million followers versus 52.5 million).

With 3.2% more followers, Girona FC posted the best percentage growth of the LaLiga Santander clubs on Twitter in March 2018 (+7,353 followers).

Levante UD (-1.3%) and Villarreal CF (-0.7%) are the only…