Twitter contributing to Football Association’s (FA) revenues

With the passage of time, twitter is becoming popular enormously and the people using and tweeting every day is increasing rapidly. This social network is basically used to write whatever a person wants without keeping any audience in mind. From a common man to celebrities, athletes, scholars, and other popular people are fond of being on twitter and using it to either give some news about their respective field or share whatever they would want to. 

When it comes to athletes, basically soccer, twitter is one of the most used social media network on which they are active. And without a doubt, there have been many arguments and fights over this medium between different soccer players as well as pundits. However, twitter has been contributing and has become a tidy revenue stream for the Football Association. Guardian reports that “The FA has made about £350,000 from fining players for social media related offenses since 2011.” Hence, this can be considered as the easiest way this organization can have to earn revenues and as for the soccer players, it can be the stupidest way to lost money paying small or large amount of fines.

The Queens Park Rangers defender, Rio Ferdinand was the recent victim of the FA to be fined over twitter abuse. Ferdinand was fined about £25,000 and banned for three matches for his tweet which included a word “sket”. “Sket” is a Caribbean slang for “whore”. Yahoo! Sports reports that “Ferdinand is the 12th player to be suspended for a social media offense. This is also his second TWTR fine. The first came in 2012 when he re-tweeted a message from another user that called Ashley Cole a "choc ice."

According to Guardian, the FA has investigated 121 social media cases in the last three years and 60 of those investigations have led to charges. Before Rio Ferdinand, there have been many other players such as Ashley Cole, who was largest fined player on twitter of £90,000 for insulting the FA itself that same year.

Hence in a nutshell, it is true there will be more use of this social media network, people will keep on tweeting about whatever they feel like. Therefore it is true that twitter fines have become the easiest and tidiest revenue stream for Football Association (FA).