LeBron’s Most Popular Tweets Say A Lot About The Narrative Of His Career

From the man who promises to never forget where he came from, comes the ultimate proof, Twitter style. Rocketgraph a quantitative (i.e. slightly nerdy) guide to social media stats has broken down all of Lebron James’ tweets. Yes, even the non-cryptic ones.

Here are the hard stats:

Total tweets: 4934. Following: 168, followers:” 28.54M, which is a ratio of 169.9K followers per account he follows back. Plus, in the last five years, he’s got 4.22 million likes and 4.8 million retweets. All of which feels just about right for an NBA superstar.

His favorite hashtags are #StriveForGreatness #TheLand #IPromise #GoBucks and #SurvivorsRemorse. Hashtags like #StriveForGreatness and #SurvivorsRemorse — which he executive produces — are obvious, but #GoBucks? He was actually referring to Ohio State’s upset win in the Superbowl this year, not the Milwaukee Bucks, but Wisconsin fans can continue to dream.

What is most interesting about all these stats though are his top 3 tweets…

These are some of the most defining moments in his career. LeBron is the first NBA superstar we’ve seen come of age almost entirely in the digital era. It was different when Kobe was a rookie and half the country had AOL dial up or when Allen Iverson was in his prime and fans chatted about it on MSN messenger. Lebron was drafted No. 1 overall in 2003; Facebook started in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006. Social Media as we know it today was born as LeBron blossomed in the Association.

James is a four-time MVP and a two-time champion, but when we think about him, it’s more about the narrative in which his career has played out: The constant MJ comparisons in his early years to the dreadful original Decision followed by two titles in Miami, a full developed post game and then Decision 2.0 in the summer of 2014. Not only do we get to see it and hear it and share it faster and easier than ever before, but we get to participate in the conversation like never before.

LeBron James has been one of the most dominant players ever during his first 13 years in the NBA, and yet we can mark a lot of what he’s gone through — the ebbs and flows of his on-court timeline — in just a few brief tweets.

(Rocketgraph)