As Elon Musk’s Twitter continues to deteriorate, many Clapton CFC members may have closed their accounts, or are using it far less frequently than previously.
CCFC quitting Twitter completely isn’t a realistic option right now, because the Men’s First Team’s league mandates the use of Football Web Pages for match updates, which triggers automated tweets when goals are scored, line-up announced etc. However, we are able to reduce our presence on Twitter outside of first team matches.
You will find more Clapton content elsewhere. For instance, there’s a new ‘On This Day’ throwback feature, which is on Bluesky, Instagram and Threads but not on Twitter.
The more people follow and engage with the club on our other channels, the more it makes sense for us to direct our limited volunteer time there.
Instagram is now probably our main social channel – follow us here – and we try to post things there before it goes on Twitter. In recent weeks we’ve started posting full-time results, post-match interview and goal clips. There’s also updates from our Reserves, Development, 5s, Youth and Under 35s teams. We’ve also moved the player of the match polls from Twitter to Instagram.
Bluesky
Clapton CFC were one of the first football clubs on Bluesky and we’ve already hit 2000 followers. It’s the closest thing to Twitter and it’s one of the fastest growing apps in the world at the moment. Follow us here.
Threads
We’re on Threads – follow us here. Although we have several thousand followers, we don’t get a lot of likes or replies to our posts. If you’re on there, engage with us, so we know that it’s worth pursuing spending time posting on there.
We’re still on Facebook – follow us here – and post regularly.
We are currently trialling live updates from Men’s and Women’s First Team matches on WhatsApp. More details to follow in a newsletter once we are happy it works and doesn’t share everyone’s phone numbers.
That will mean you can follow match updates for both first teams without being on Twitter.
Telegram
We also have a club Telegram broadcast channel here.
Football Web Pages
You can follow live updates on all Men’s First Team games on Football Web Pages, which is also available as an app for Apple or Android.
We have spoken to FWP who are keen to allow automated posting to other platforms not just Twitter – particularly Bluesky – but the backend doesn’t yet allow it.
We have requested that the Women’s First Team league is also added to the app but that’s unlikely this season.
Club website
This website is pretty good, even if we do say so ourselves, and there’s usually a couple of articles posted each day. So do keep visiting.
Members’ newsletter
Our 1,500 members receive a newsletter each week packed with club news and community updates. To receive it, you’ll need to become a member, which starts at £5 per year.
YouTube
Our post-match interviews and match highlights are posted to our YouTube channel here first, along with the occasional goal clip.
TikTok
We post only sporadically on here at the moment – follow us here.