Everyone's Talking About Rafa

The Australian Open site has a feature called the social leaderboard. By the magic of modern science it records the players that people are talking about on twitter. Not surprisingly everyone is (as usual ) talking about Rafa...

These are the 5 most talked about players so far.

1) Nadal 390,971 tweets

2) Federer 133,133 tweets

3) Sharapova 107,837 tweets

4) Djokovic 96,178 tweets

5) Ivanovic 66,501 tweets

http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/social/leaderboard/index.html?promo=rail

Note - This is the total for the tournament and it is constantly updated so the figures will change. The leaderboard also has daily totals. Not surprisingly after today   Nadal tops this list too.

I saw that, Marias "sentiment" meter was pretty low, it was more bad than good. Ive been going off social media lately though, far too man people saying disgusting things at eachother and then deleting it.

It's not talking is it?

It's just typing 150 characters.

Almost like writing your address on the back of napkin!

So a huge proportion of people who tap inanely into a micro-attention span medium are really attached to Rafa.

I'm sure he would be graceful and thank them for their attention.

14x slam champion is 2 sets to 1 down vs the World 112 is it really a surprise he's been tweeted about? Heard he was sick on court too!
Plus been out of the game for a while etc, more eyes on him. Its a shame he's also got the most negative tweets by the looks of things too

This thread (is it a yearly thing now HE) is really only useful in showing that a rather outdated view of social media persists. It's the proverbial dog whistle I suppose. Those who hear it hear it, those who don't, don't. Nothing is going to change either way

People generally talk about Drama queens, so no wonder Rafa and Sharapova leads the table respectively.

Isnt Federer third? Did he really make that much of a drama over his finger? Didnt sound like he did

Yeah, that's not how twitter works. No suprise Nadal had the most, he was in the longest match. No suprise Federer is second. He has the second largest digital footprint of any tennis player. No idea how Ivanovic rounds out the top five, but she's damn pretty, so it makes sense people watched her, and then mentioned how hot she is.

Well, you know, adolescent fan girls don't have anything better to do other than spend all day tweeting about Rafa's shorts and shirts.

emancipator wrote:Well, you know, adolescent fan girls don't have anything better to do than spend all day tweeting about Rafa's shorts and shirts.

Nadal's fan make up is larger than the narrow minded stereotypes in your mind... do you ever go to matches and sit with Nadal fans- or even see who's turned up to his training sessions ?

It Must Be Love wrote:

emancipator wrote:Well, you know, adolescent fan girls don't have anything better to do than spend all day tweeting about Rafa's shorts and shirts.

Nadal's fan make up is larger than the narrow minded stereotypes in your mind... do you ever go to matches and sit with Nadal fans- or even see who's turned up to his training sessions ?

Actually no I don't.. I leave that weird stuff for.. well you know

emancipator wrote:

It Must Be Love wrote:

emancipator wrote:Well, you know, adolescent fan girls don't have anything better to do than spend all day tweeting about Rafa's shorts and shirts.

Nadal's fan make up is larger than the narrow minded stereotypes in your mind... do you ever go to matches and sit with Nadal fans- or even see who's turned up to his training sessions ?

Actually no I don't.. I leave that weird stuff for.. well you know

Maybe if you actually did some research and based your opinions on some evidence rather than narrow minded stereotypes; you would be able to come up with more sensible posts

So how do you explain Federer at two... Unless he has middle aged fan boys who have nothing better do than spend all day tweeting about his bee sting?

Leave the fangirls alone, they earn a lot o money for the ATP. Also why is being a girl considered some sort of slant here?

kingraf wrote:So how do you explain Federer at two... Unless he has middle aged fan boys who have nothing better do than spend all day tweeting about his bee sting?

Yeah good explanation.

Of course there are probably far more adolescent fan girls with nothing better to do on twitter than middle aged fan boys.

Wow, between us we've managed to explain the numbers. Sadly, I don't think HE was hoping for this kind of explanation.

CAS wrote:14x slam champion is 2 sets to 1 down vs the World 112 is it really a surprise he's been tweeted about? Heard he was sick on court too!
Plus been out of the game for a while etc, more eyes on him. Its a shame he's also got the most negative tweets by the looks of things too

Actually Nadal "only" had 133,536 tweets today. His overall total of 419,333 tweets shows that it wasn't just his dramatic match today that have got people talking. As far as positive tweets go 76% of 419,333 tweets is rather a lot Having just read some of the comments on the "Fedal" match call thread go I can make a good guess where the 24% of negative tweets come from. Just the usual grinding of teeth from a certain section that he managed to win today. If Nadal manages to progress further in the tournament I expect the negative tweets to increase. But I also imagine the positive ones will do too.

nb The totals are constantly updated and I have used the very latest figures.

Does anyone care who gets the most tweets.

Charades! 1 word. 2 syllables. 1 syllable. Sounds like "squawk"... ok 2nd syllable then.... sounds like "pie."

socal1976 wrote:Does anyone care who gets the most tweets.

I bet Djokovic does I can imagine him nervously checking the AO social leaderboard site several times a day... and then smashing a few racquets in despair

Andy Murray is also apparently green with envy as he has been adding to the twitter numbers with his own whiny "look at me not Rafa" tweet

NOT everyone was impressed by Rafael Nadal’s inspiring Australian Open performance last night.

Just ask Andy Murray.

Nadal battled illness and cramp as he came back from the brink to defeat America’s Tim Smyczek in five sets.

Murray, a comfortable straight sets winner over Australia’s Marinko Matosevic yesterday, took to Twitter this morning to play down Nadal’s performance — or at least to complain about the different coverage the Spaniard has received in the press compared to when he also battled cramp to win at the US Open last year.

Have a cry, mate...

This is the "tweet" in question

When I cramped and won in the us open last year I was a "drama Queen, unfit, needs to see a shrink, faker" weird...

http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open-day-four-at-melbourne-park/story-fndkzym4-1227193186191

Not sure how you are interpreting that tweet as an attack on Rafa. Its clearly aimed at slightly unbalanced individuals who constantly criticise Murray whilst praising Rafa in similar circumstances. I can understand why you may have paid it special interest.

Born Slippy wrote:Not sure how you are interpreting that tweet as an attack on Rafa. Its clearly aimed at slightly unbalanced individuals who constantly criticise Murray whilst praising Rafa in similar circumstances. I can understand why you may have paid it special interest.

Check.....
Mate.....

Yeah, probably not an "attack"... But still, nothing makes you look like a drama queen more than questioning why you're the only one who gets called a drama queen.
So dramatic

I'm not sure many care about the tweets, socal. Too hard to draw any kind of meaningful conclusion from the data either way, too many variables, etc.

Born Slippy wrote:Not sure how you are interpreting that tweet as an attack on Rafa. Its clearly aimed at slightly unbalanced individuals who constantly criticise Murray whilst praising Rafa in similar circumstances. I can understand why you may have paid it special interest.

Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal
Heading back home. See you soon #australianopen and Melbourne. Thanks to @crowntowers for their attention these weeks pic.twitter.com/lytfFHxm7M
3:36 am - 28 Jan 2015

Your attention has not gone un-noticed HE

emancipator wrote:Well, you know, adolescent fan girls don't have anything better to do other than spend all day tweeting about Rafa's shorts and shirts.

hawkeye wrote:

socal1976 wrote:Does anyone care who gets the most tweets.

I bet Djokovic does I can imagine him nervously checking the AO social leaderboard site several times a day... and then smashing a few racquets in despair

Andy Murray is also apparently green with envy as he has been adding to the twitter numbers with his own whiny "look at me not Rafa" tweet