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London: Ronaldo is the most targeted by Twitter insults

published3. August 2022, 11:51

LondonRonaldo is the most targeted by Twitter insults

An analysis of over 2 million tweets has shown that a majority of Premier League professionals have been insulted multiple times on the platform. Ronaldo received the most hate comments.

No Premier League professional has received as many hate comments on Twitter as Christiano Ronaldo.

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Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is among the most insulted Premier League players on Twitter. This is the result of an analysis by the British media regulator Ofcom and the Alan Turing Institute, which published that a total of 68 percent of Premier League professionals have already fallen victim to abusive messages on the online platform. To determine the numbers, 2.3 million tweets from the first five months of the 2021/22 season were analyzed.

According to the Alan Turing Institute, Ronaldo, who plays for Manchester United, received 12,520 abusive messages. The Portuguese was followed by his teammates Harry Maguire and Marcus Rashford. The most affected club was Tottenham Hotspur.

According to this, a total of 57 percent of the tweets were positive, but almost 60,000 (3.5 percent) were offensive. Almost seven percent of the players were affected daily. As Ofcom and the Alan Turing Institute further announced, 50 percent of the tweets would have affected only twelve professionals. On average, they received 15 messages a day.

(German Press Agency GmbH)

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