Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte Among Top 10 in Twitter Analysis of Olympians

LONDON, England, July 9. TRAFFICADO, a web-monetization company, released a social media study of the 50 most popular Olympians from the NBCOlympics website, and a pair of swimmers made the grade in two separate categories of the analysis.

Phelps checks in with the ninth-most followers amongst this year's Olympians:

Lebron James — Basketball – 5,274,238
Serena Williams — Tennis – 2,841,006
Kevin Durant — Basketball – 2,479,605
Carmelo Anthony — Basketball – 2,247,680
Usain Bolt — Track & Field – 557,769
Rudy Gay — Basketball – 539,667
Alex Morgan — Soccer – 531,517
Tony Parker — Basketball – 292,290
Michael Phelps — Swimming – 235,037
Lolo Jones — Track & Field – 154,750

Meanwhile, Ryan Lochte is the eighth-oldest early adopter of Twitter, having joined way back on April 25, 2009:

Bryan Clay — Track & Field – 12/2/2008
Reid Priddy — Volleyball – 2/23/2009
Lindsey Berg -Volleyball – 3/2/2009
LeBron James -Basketball – 3/6/2009
Allyson Felix -Track & Field – 3/15/2009
Serena Williams — Tennis – 3/15/2009
Alex Morgan — Soccer – 4/3/2009
Ryan Lochte — Swimming – 4/25/2009
Jordyn Wieber – Gymnastics – 4/25/2009
Kevin Durant — Basketball – 4/27/2009

Neither Lochte or Phelps made the top 10 for the most active, headlined by Kevin Durant of USA Basketball, who has amassed an astonishing 20,714 tweets since joining on April 27, 2009.

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