Turf Twitter

Analyzing the tweets and the accounts of the turf industry on Twitter.

For the sixth year in a row, I’ve taken a look at “turfgrass Twitter” to find some of the most influential and active accounts from the previous year. I cast a broad net to find the industry accounts, and I minimize manual intervention of account addition and removal.

For the fifth year in a row, I’ve taken a look at “turfgrass Twitter” to find some of the most influential and active accounts from the previous year. I cast a broad net to find the industry accounts, and I minimize manual intervention of account addition and removal.

I’ve repeated an analysis of tweets and accounts from another year in the turf industry. Last week I shared some overall results and category-specific rankings. I've repeated the #TurfTwitter analysis for 2020 and put the results in a searchable and sortable Shiny app.

I recently completed an analysis of Turf Twitter in 2019, with the searchable results in this Shiny app. Based on the number of followers, mentions of the account, the favorites and retweets and quotes of that accounts’ tweets, and the number of tweets sent from the account, these are the top 50 “influential” accounts for 2019:

Jason Haines passed 4,000 Twitter followers in July 2017. In the turfgrass industry, that’s a lot. But wouldn’t it be nice to have more? He asked if I had any suggestions about how to get more followers as a superintendent.