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What Are Basketball Fans Saying on Twitter?: Evidence From Euroleague Basketball's Final Four Event

What Are Basketball Fans Saying on Twitter?: Evidence From Euroleague Basketball's Final Four Event
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Author(s): Burçin Güçlü (Universitat Romon Llull, Spain), Marcela Garza (Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain)and Christopher Kennett (Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 18
Source title: Research Anthology on Usage, Identity, and Impact of Social Media on Society and Culture
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6307-9.ch045

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Abstract

Social media receives growing interest from sports executives. Yet, very little is known about how to make use of such user-generated, unstructured data. By exploring tweets generated during Turkish Airlines Euroleague's Final Four event, which broadcasted the four tournaments of championship among four finalist teams, the authors studied how fans respond to gains and losses and how engaged they were during games through the course of the event. The authors found that favorable reactions were received when teams won, but the magnitude of unfavorable reaction was larger when teams lost. When it came to the organizer rather than the teams, the organizer of the event received most of the positive feedback. The authors also found that main source of tweets was smartphones while tablets were not among real-time feedback devices.

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