We conducted a seven month study of football fans to see if they make good followers on Twitter. Our hypothesis was that people who tweeted about football would tend to follow other Twitter members who tweeted about football too. Football would be the common interest and that should create an instant bond.

Let's look at the methodology first:

We created a Twitter Account fourthandinches.

For filtered following, we opened an account with TweetSpinner . 

We keyed in the names of all NFL teams, key players, coaches, positions, events and terms in TweetSpinner.Then set TweetSpinner to follow anyone who tweeted about those keywords. We [More...]

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