Serena Williams is Twitter's most tweeted about female athlete ever
She may not have emerged victorious from her final match at the US Open on Friday, September 2, against Ajla Tomljanovic, but Serena Williams can still bow out of tennis with her head held high
After a phenomenal career, Serena Williams is saying goodbye to the world of professional tennis, leaving her mark on the courts as well as on social media. On Twitter, this exceptional tennis player is the most tweeted about female athlete of all time.
Serena outshines Venus
Regarding hashtags, #Serena, #SerenaWilliams and #ThankYouSerena count 187,347 tweets, 140,400 tweets and 52,121 tweets respectively in the last seven days on Twitter, reports Visibrain. In all, more than one million tweets have been posted about the athlete. This number rises to nearly 1.9 million since January 1, 2022. In this game, the sportswoman is far ahead of her sister, Venus Williams, and her 202,055 tweets, not to mention Simone Biles (446,613 tweets), although she lags far behind Cristiano Ronaldo (16.4 million tweets), LeBron James (8.1 million), Tom Brady (5.7 million) and Lionel Messi (4.2 million) as of the beginning of 2022.While the sport is widely commented on Twitter, the social network took advantage of the recent event to surf on the trend. It launched a special "goat" emoji featuring the animal kitted out with a tennis outfit and racket, appearing in tweets with the hashtags #Serena, #SerenaWilliams and #ThankYouSerena. Note that GOAT is also used an acronym for "Greatest Of All Time." Twitter has previously used this feature to honor the Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, the American soccer player Tom Brady and the soccer players Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.