Liverpool Football Club’s official Twitter feed @LFC has been voted the world’s best by a sports team at the Shorty Awards in the USA.
At a gala event in New York which also honoured NASA for best use of twitter in the Government category and Justin Bieber in the Celebrity category, @LFC received most votes in the sports team listings to claim the prestigious award.
Staged at the Times Centre, the fourth Shorty Awards – known as ‘the Grammys and Oscars of social media’ – were held in front of a packed crowd of celebrities and social media heavyweights alike and recognised the best users of social media in dozens of wide-ranging categories.
With over 829,000 followers @LFC has gone from strength to strength since its launch in January 2009 and thanks to votes from Twitter users all over the world, we’re delighted our official twitter feed has been recognised as the world’s best by a sports team for its role in keeping supporters up to date with the latest news from Anfield.
But we don’t want to stop there and as we’re always looking at ways of further improving our twitter offering to supporters, this month we kicked off a brand new ‘Twitter Tuesday’ feature in which we give fans the chance to quiz former Kop stars in a live question and answer session online. Luis Garcia and Titi Camara have joined us over the past two weeks and we have plenty more exciting plans for the future to give our fans the chance to interact with their heroes.
