REVEALED: Chelsea beat league rivals Man Utd and Arsenal in the race for deadline day sway
HEAT maps visualising Twitter conversations throughout the 24 hour window of Deadline Day have been revealed to show the huge spike caused by the signing of Juan Cuadrado by Chelsea.
The Deadline Day surge caused by Chelsea's last minute signing
Cuadrado signing for Chelsea saw the greatest peak in conversation throughout #DeadlineDay, which also saw Andre Schurrle's Blues departure and Aaron Lennon's switch to Everton make the top three most talked about deals.
The most retweeted Tweet of the day was Chelsea's announcement of the capture of the Colombian international from Serie A side Fiorentina, with over 26K retweets.
On the discussion of most rumoured deals of the winter transfer window, Lionel Messi's proposed £200m move to Chelsea topped the chart, with the Blues interest in Paul Pogba also attracting plenty of attention.
We are delighted to announce the signing of Juan Cuadrado from Fiorentina... http://t.co/zGHgPUnZCC #CFC pic.twitter.com/USBj1A98Pt
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) February 2, 2015
The five players who saw the greatest spike in follower numbers on the social meda site following their January moves were:
1) Victor Valdes - Up 145K Followers
2) Juan Cuadrado - Up 100K Followers
3) Lukas Podolski - Up 95K Followers
4) Lucas Silva - Up 55K Followers
5) Xherdan Shaqiri - Up 52K Followers