Twitter maps Premier League fans around the world

There's one club in red that dominates in Ireland.

If you've ever had an argument with your mates about your club having more supporters than his, then this will settle it. Sort of.

Twitter have launched their Premier League follower map which gives a global breakdown of the Twitter followers of all 20 Premier League clubs, and it's thrown up a few surprises as well as confirmed some suspicions.

If the map doesn't work for you here, you can click on the link at the bottom of the article to access it.

Created by looking at the official Twitter accounts for each team, and using their followers as an indicator of allegiance, the map gives fans a glance at which teams dominate each country by colour-coding each club and painting that country or region with the colour of the dominant team.

The top three in all the countries are dominated by a combination of Arsenal (yellow), Chelsea (blue), Liverpool (green), Man Utd (red) and Man City (purple) - but it might surprise you to know that Arsenal and Chelsea are the two big-hitters in Europe which shows a north/south divide - the North London club ruling in northern Europe, while Chelsea command the south.

As for Ireland, It's the red team from Merseyside that has painted the map green, with some pockets of red, for Man Utd, sprinkled in between and a couple of yellow Arsenal splodges completing the picture.

Fans can toggle the map to view their own club's support worldwide, see the most popular clubs overall, and settle arguments by comparing their club with a rival. With this, fans of clubs outside the top five can see how they fare around the world and see, for example, that QPR support takes a big jump in Malaysia, presumably thanks to Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, the club chairman.

You can also see the affect of player power, since Uruguay still seems to be in love with Liverpool, despite the fact that Luis Suarez left them last summer, while Arsenal are benefiting from Alexis Sanchez' signing with a surge in support in Chile.

Here's the link, to have a look, but don't be on it all day, you've got work to do.