Danny Sheridan Accused of Buying Twitter Followers
The websites Wagerminds and Beyond the Bets have accused USA Today sports analyst Danny Sheridan of buying twitter followers. Sheridan’s account increased from 11,000 followers in April to a current total of around 365,000. Many of the followers appear to be spambots.
Sheridan’s follower count skyrocketed from 11,000 to nearly 200,000 in just 8 weeks. And then, in the following 2 weeks, he tacked on another 120,000 followers to bring his total follower count to 333,900. Now, this meteoric rise in Danny Sheridan’s popularity is hard to explain (see graph below). After all, the guy has been writing for USA Today for ages so why, suddenly, did Sheridan become such a big hit on Twitter?
Sheridan denied the accusations to USA Today. ”I have never, ever spent a penny to buy followers on Twitter,” he said.
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June 27th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Good to see Sarah Phillips found work so quickly.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Is there anything more worthless than Twitter followers? When I look at some writers that are complete hacks yet have over 10,000 followers, I want to punch something but then quickly realize I have a sandwich in one hand and a soda in the other.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Who would you most like to see accused of this? (and you can’t say Rovell)
June 27th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I have been in some pretty odd twitter convos with Sheridan, BTB, et al, concerning the Bag Man. Dude isn’t all together there.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Grant Wahl.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:29 PM
That’s true…but he doled out a hefty amount of blow jobs.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Seriously though, who cares? Not a knock on Duffy, but so what if they want to waste their money on this.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Hackiest are the Web Marketing Guru/Affiliate Entrepreneur who made 15 billion in 8 seconds and so can you if you follow them; 130000 following 10000 followers.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
You don’t like Wahl? You are very hipsterish, I’ve noticed. Look for excuses to tear down popular things.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
/pulls up inflatable chair
June 27th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
This makes those porno spam bots follow me seem so much more cheap.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
I thought buying Twitter followers was a standard thing.
Is there anything more worthless than Twitter followers?
Better than clueless commenters.
/TBL’d
June 27th, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Didn’t like the Beckham experiment, don’t like his writing in general, and definitely didn’t like his sanctimonious “I should be FIFA president” shit.
/framed photos
June 27th, 2012 at 12:40 PM
By the way I hope the photo used up there of Sheridan is somehow a current photo.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Wahl’s twitter feed has been extra douchey lately, lots of humblebrags about being in Poland, which doesn’t seem like something people should brag about.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
But Gareth Bale does suck.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
GOD YOU HIPSTER
June 27th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
It was taken from the set of Anchorman 2
June 27th, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Someone who would want to run for FIFA president being shady? No way!
Your the guy who cheers only for the favourites right?
I posit your favourite book, movie and dish is:
Bible, Avatar and white rice.
/Way to stick it to us hipsters with your clearly superior post-irony lifestyle
June 27th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
the FIFA thing was cringe-worthy, I’ll admit. But I enjoy his writing. Gets a lot of big global soccer stars for sit-down interviews. A rarity for American soccer journalist. I’ve been watching his TV reports on Fox Soccer Channel. Obviously he is a novice, but I’d advice him to turn his body towards the camera. He stands in a weird way where his face is toward the camera, but the body is positioned away from the lens. It’s weird.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Danny Sheridan forced the issue on Twitter. Now he has options.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Didn’t know he was doing those. I try to stay away from FSC whenever possible as they’re owned by The Sun.
As much shit as ESPN rightly gets for their soccer treatment sometimes, they have the best soccer writers in my opinion (in house and guest writers) and it’s not particularly close.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Yes, cheering for podunk, shitty ass teams like Greece and England go thru tournament while playing defensive, boring, shitty ass football is just SOOOO much better than watching big matches involving proper footballing nations. I don’t mind non-traditional teams advance in tournaments. As long as they are doing it by playing proper football like Uruguay in World Cup 2010. What I don’t have patience for is shitty team like England playing like crap for 90-120 minutes and hoping to scrape by with a lucky ass goal or via PK’s. Sports Cinderellas are for weak, cowardly men who likes watching The Notebook while clutching a piece of tissue.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:51 PM
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June 27th, 2012 at 12:53 PM
EXCUSE ME?
June 27th, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Are we really going to pretend like Uruguay was relevant at international soccer just because they won those two titles 60 years ago. Please don’t strike back at me using Copa America titles, they’ve won since then. It’d be like USA or Mexico boasting about their Gold Cup titles.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:55 PM
I get this to an extent.
I’d rather see an awesome matchup of two great teams than see a great team lose to a Cinderella then the Cinderella gets slaughtered.
Unless I have an interest in seeing the great team lose.
Speaking of which, Michigan to play App State again in 2014. Loser kills themselves, Duffy.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:58 PM
They weren’t IRRELEVANT though. They had a rough go of World Cups in the last few tournaments before 2010 but they were a regular in the knockouts in the 80s and finished in the money in several Copa Americas in the last few versions before 2010.
They weren’t a Cinderella in 2010 though, they were loaded with talent and everyone knew it.
June 27th, 2012 at 12:58 PM
To me this is the crux of it. You seem equate subjective preference “Grant Wahl’s is bland” as some sort of character metric that defines a person. This is ass backward. “What does this melon baller say about me?” Keep shopping aspirationally as marketers need to eat.
June 27th, 2012 at 1:00 PM
South Korea’s run would have been a better example than Uruguay but I get your overall point. Also love the inclusion of England as a shitty team, love it.
June 27th, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Also everyone knows the correct soccer team to cheer for is a combination of drinking, politics, jingoism and gambling.
/And fuck Italy
June 27th, 2012 at 1:02 PM
I guess it just depends on what your definition of relevant is. I’m thinking relevant=consistently make quarter-final or semi-final at World Cup or European Championships.
Urguay is very talented. As they showed by deservedly winning Copa America last year. I’m excited to watch them in Brazil. Wouldn’t be surprised if they made another semi-finals.
June 27th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Jason McIntyre.
June 27th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Deadspin