CAN MLB TEAMS TWEET
their way to higher attendance? Teams with higher Twitter volume tend to have higher average home game attendance‌ even if the team isn’t winning.
908
Twitter Mentions*
41,373
Average Home Game Attendance
37,586 473 34,069 378 28,737 361 45,314 311 37,306 291 27,825 255
42,873
191
41,545
189
41,212
186
39,908
184 165 162 156
30,681
22,327 21,933 25,790
136 134 131 104
33,575 24,271 19,911 21,168
98 95 85 70
33,259 25,002 22,709 25,154
68 65
35,622 26,112
61 52
723
31,921 23,171
49 14,665 40 20,500 25 20,834
STANDINGS American League East Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto NY Yankees Boston
PCT 0.655 0.655 0.552 0.536 0.429
Central Cleveland Detroit Chi White Sox Kansas City Minnesota
0.607 0.5 0.433 0.321 0.25
West Texas Oakland Seattle LA Angels
0.655 0.517 0.452 0.433
National League East Washington Atlanta NY Mets Miami Philadelphia
PCT 0.643 0.6 0.552 0.517 0.467
Central St. Louis Cincinnati Houston Pittsburgh Chi Cubs Milwaukee
0.621 0.536 0.448 0.429 0.414 0.414
West LA Dodgers San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego
0.655 0.483 0.467 0.429 0.333
*Thousand of Tweets All data current as of May 8, 2012. Standings data from MLB.com Average Attendance data from espn.com