The hotbeds of Southampton FC support revealed - thanks to Twitter

1:10pm Friday 11th January 2013 in Sport Photograph of the Author By Dan Kerins, Digital Editor

Where do Saints fans live? Where do Saints fans live?

Thanks to researchers, you can now see where Saints fans from across the UK are tweeting from about their favourite club.

The Oxford Internet Institute has put together an interactive map showing where Twitter users mentioned the official #saintsfc hashtag from.

Unsurprisingly, most were in Hampshire, but you may be surprised at some of the more distant locations Saints fans were tweeting from.

You can also compare how Saints fare with other Premier League clubs.

In terms of popularity, Saints are the 14th most frequently tweeted about club in the Premier League, with 96 mentions per million UK tweets.

Liverpool was the most popular, with 722 mentions per million tweets in the UK.

If you're on Twitter, make sure you follow @the_saints for all the latest news on your favourite club.

Comments(12)

lowe esteem says...
1:34pm Fri 11 Jan 13

Am I tweeting now?
Really don't know, and certainly don't care.
Though I would like to see a colourful demographic of Saints actual support-season ticket holders etc- which would show a larger following in the PO postcode than other smaller, local clubs for instance.

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cj_garrett says...
1:41pm Fri 11 Jan 13

There is so much wrong with this survey...

Do all Saints fans tweet? No
Everytime a tweet is made from a Saint fan is the saintsfc hashtag used? No
Is it just Saints fans who use the saintsfc hashtag? No
Are all tweets geo-tagged? No

Not really representative of our support.

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OSPREYSAINT says...
2:04pm Fri 11 Jan 13

There seems to be a disproprtionate number of Saints fans in the Nottarf Krap area, what is that all about?

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Jesus_02 says...
2:25pm Fri 11 Jan 13

Yep flawed to say the least. The #saintsfc tweets from Pompey are just as likely to be from abusive sk8's than saints fans tweeting about their favorite team.

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Stroppy_gramps says...
2:26pm Fri 11 Jan 13

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
There seems to be a disproprtionate number of Saints fans in the Nottarf Krap area, what is that all about?
clearly proper football fans, living in a footballing wasteland, desperate to see and talk about decent football.

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Beer Monster says...
3:13pm Fri 11 Jan 13

There's a few of us up here in Edinburgh then :-)

Admittedly, I've only ever used tw@tter once and didn't use a Saints hash tag, hence why I don't appear in the stats.

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Strasbourg Saint says...
3:33pm Fri 11 Jan 13

Too old to be bothered to tweat, but if all of us Saints around the world did tweat, that map - which should be global anyway - would have a wonderful red glow across it from New Zeland up to Japan across Europe and over to Canada and down to Brazil.

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ThatMatthewGuy says...
5:00pm Fri 11 Jan 13

I'm surprised to see a few Saints tweets flying from the Sunderland area. I haven't found another one and I've been living here for 3 years. I would hazard a guess that they're always looking over their shoulder as the mighty Saints look to put them in the relegation zone.

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olddellsaint says...
6:14am Sat 12 Jan 13

What was the point of this survay??? I tried to find me and my m8;s in our area, but there was no red bits there, we tweet to each other regulary about Saints and many other subjects, bit intrusive if you ask me, perhaps they should do a suray on how useful these people are we pay for out of our well earned taxes. rant over with.

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The only saint in COV says...
11:35am Sat 12 Jan 13

I think i am the only Saints supporter in nuneaton.Been taking alot of stick for years from the Midland teams.Now its my turn to brag.Going today at the VILLA.Should be a win 4-1 Coyr

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olddellsaint says...
12:26pm Sat 12 Jan 13

The only saint in COV wrote:
I think i am the only Saints supporter in nuneaton.Been taking alot of stick for years from the Midland teams.Now its my turn to brag.Going today at the VILLA.Should be a win 4-1 Coyr
LIKE

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llamas says...
12:46pm Sat 12 Jan 13

na i thought same for ages but there is a few of us in nuneaton.work with a couple of supporters in hinckley as well

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