England and Hodgson win approval on Twitter

June 20th, 2012 - Roy Hodgson and the England team are winning the game on Twitter as well as the pitch according to research released today by digital marketing agency, Silverbean. Statistics that cover the beginning of the European Championship to last night's crucial win in Ukraine reveal that negative tweets about the England team have decreased by 43% - a huge drop in Twitter terms.

Negative sentiment about the England manager, Roy Hodgson has also dropped by 50% and now that England have qualified for the knockout stages of the competition positive tweets for the team has risen by 80%.

John Terry is the England player most tweeted about with an average of 3055 tweets
per day but captain Steven Gerrard wins the Twitter popularity contest with 81% approval with goalkeeper Joe Hart close behind on 69%. A full list of the report findings are at www.silverbean.co.uk.

The player with the biggest sentiment increase is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain whose performances have earned him 240% increase in positive tweets. Ashley Young meanwhile has seen an increase of negative tweets by over 200%.

"As England progress in the tournament fans are taking to Twitter to register their approval or disapproval of team performances and individual players," commented Neil Robbins, managing director of Silverbean. "Our software which captures all the Twitter statistics also captures and reflects the mood of the nation. At the moment, we appear to be cautiously optimistic"

For further information, visit www.silverbean.co.uk.

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