Twitter: 51.61 million followers in total for the 20 LaLiga Santander clubs (March 2017)

The 20 clubs in the 2016-17 LaLiga Santander season have a total of 51.61 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data compiled by News Tank Football on 01/03/2017. This result makes LaLiga Santander the most popular European Top 5 league on Twitter, with an average of 2.58 million followers per club.

Real Madrid CF are the most followed Spanish club, with 22.36 million subscribers, up 357,675 (+1.6%) compared early February 2017. The Madrid club is the European club with most followers on its main Twitter account, and the one which gained most new followers in February.

FC Barcelona are the only club in the Top 5 leagues whose primary Twitter account (the one with the most followers) is not the one in its own language, since Barça have more followers on his account in English (20.16 million) than on their Spanish account. The Catalan club became the second club - after Real Madrid - to cross the 20 million followers mark on its main Twitter account. The two clubs together comprise 82% of the total Twitter followers of LaLiga Santander clubs on their main…