Sports Stars on Twitter

We have listed the top five biggest users of Twitter from the world of Soccer, Rugby, Golf, Formula One and Tennis. Although when we say the biggest users, we suspect that many of these accounts are handled by the player’s agents and their management companies. During our research, we came across some interesting findings.

Football

It seems oddly fitting that the biggest tweeters from the beautiful game are from the Spanish League, given Spain’s dominance of world football at the moment, although many of the footballers on the list aren’t actually of Spanish descent. At the top of the table is Brazilian Kaka has over 5.3 million followers, that’s more than the entire population of Ireland. In second place is his Madrid teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo, followed by Diego Forlan who plays for cross-town rivals, Athletico Madrid. Rio Ferdinand is the only Premier League player to make it into the top five.

@KAKA
Madrid
Bio: Um cristao, marido e pai. Que ama o futebol
Followers: 5,200,898

@Cristiano
Madrid
Followers: 3,642,834

@DiegoForlan7
Madrid
Bio: Goleador del Mundial 2010, disputa su tercer Copa América y es uno de los delanteros más importantes de la tabla de goleadores de Uruguay según DIRECTV Sports.
Followers: 1,578,219

@andresiniesta8
Barcelona
Bio: Andrés Iniesta Lujan, born in Fuentealbilla the 11th of may of 1984. Football player from the FC Barcelona in Spain.
Followers: 1,420,040

@rioferdy5
Manchester, UK
Bio: Official Twitter account of Rio Ferdinand
Followers: 1,329,319

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What’s the Masters? The US Masters is a four-day golf tournament which takes place at the famous Augusta National course in Georgia, USA. It is one of the sport’s four “Major” tournaments – the others being the US Open, the USPGA and the British Open. It is always the first to be held in the annual golfing calendar and, therefore, there’s quite a bit of buzz as it’s the first time that most of the sport’s big names come together at the same event.

Why is it such a big deal? Ask any golf fan and they will tell you that the Masters is more than a tournament. It has so much history and tradition behind it that one cannot help but be amazed. Add in the fact that it is hosted at Augusta National, the most famous (and possibly the most beautiful – check out those azalea-lined fairways) golf course in the world and you begin to get some sense of why the Masters is golf’s biggest Major.

What does the winner get? A cool $1,350,000 – but believe it or not, at Augusta, the money’s not the important part.
The winner also gets to wear the famous green jacket, which has traditionally been presented since 1949. Winners get to keep the jacket for the first year after their Masters victory, but thereafter it is returned to the golf club and can only be worn on course grounds.