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Blackhawks Twitter account reaches one million followers

By Blair Sheade

Coach Joel Quenneville lifts up the Stanley Cup at the Blackhawks rally at Soldier Field June 18, 2015. | Ashlee Rezin/for Sun-Times Media

The Blackhawks social media team has to thank the players for winning the Stanley Cup Final because that helped the Twitter account reach over one million followers.

Reaching 1 million followers has us feeling like pic.twitter.com/WN5EVUWvd0
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) June 23, 2015

Thanks #Blackhawks fans, and you too #StanleyCup, for helping us get there. #ONEGOAL
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) June 23, 2015

The Blackhawks Twitter account reaching one million followers puts them into the second largest Twitter following among Chicago sports teams.

Chicago teams by Twitter following:
1 @chicagobulls - 2.24M
2 @NHLBlackhawks - 1M
3 @ChicagoBears - 760K
4 @Cubs - 558K
5 @WhiteSox - 306K
— Danny Ecker (@DannyEcker) June 23, 2015

The Bulls still have double the Blackhawks’ followers and remain the most popular team in Chicago.

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