Twitter: 49.95 million followers in total for the 20 Premier League clubs (April 2017)

The 20 clubs in the 2016-17 Premier League season have a cumulative total of 49.95 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data compiled by News Tank Football on 01/04/2017. The Premier League is the second most followed European Top 5 league, behind LaLiga Santander, with 2.5 million followers on average per club.

Manchester United remain the most followed English club, with 10.63 million followers, up 306,862 (+3%) compared to the beginning of March 2017. Five Premier League clubs - Arsenal (2^nd, 9.54 million), Chelsea (3^rd, 8.28 million), Liverpool (4^th, 7.08 million), and Manchester City (5^th, 4.15 million), in addition to Manchester United - have more than 4 million followers.

At 3.3% (from 207,202 to 214,086), Middlesbrough are the Premier League club which registered the best percentage growth on Twitter in March 2017.

The figures considered in this table are only for the main Twitter account of each club

• News Tank Football also publishes a "Twitter: Top 100 European clubs with the most followers" list, in which all followers are added, including…