Yesterday, we ranked all 30 teams in Major League Baseball by the number of Facebook fans. It was a good look at how pure brand power elevates national interest (the Yankees and Red Sox lead the pack), and with some proactive social media direction, how you are in the standings or your market size can be slightly overcome (the Cleveland Indians).

Today, we thought it would be interesting to see how the teams fare on the other major social media platform, Twitter.

In a sign that Twitter is still in the shadows of Facebook, the total number of followers for all 30 teams in MLB on Twitter is 2,362,301 a fraction of what Facebook has in term of fans (as of yesterday, 22,838,066).

The key difference is that instead of the Yankees or the Red Sox leading the pack, the most followed MLB team account on Twitter is the Philadelphia Phillies at 645,771. To put that in perspective, that total on Facebook would have ranked 13th.

In terms of the lowest follower and fan base across Twitter and Facebook, the award goes to the Florida Marlins (28th on Facebook and 30th on Twitter).

Here’s the league counted by Twitter followers as of 9am ET on 9/20/2011:

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written by @NHLTina, September 20, 2011

As a Tigers fan, I think one of the problems with them being #21 on Twitter is because they have two accounts: @tigers (24,000+) and @OFFICIAL_TIGERS (almost 46,000).

Until recently, I was not aware of their official twitter (@tigers) and only following the second one that gave me updates on the scores (@OFFICIAL_TIGERS).

Teams should learn to keep only one account. If there needs to be a different account, make sure the purposes are clear to the fans.

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