Tom Daley tops Olympics social media chart: August 1

Tom Daley has been the subject of media attention both in and out of the pool after being subject to online abuse by a Twitter user who has since been detained by the police.

Chinese shooter and the first gold medalist of the Games Yi Siling has been gaining in popularity online and is currently ranked in fourth position, while Chinese gymnast Chen Yibing takes fifth place after racking up 150,000 new Tencent followers in a day following China's male gymnastics team's gold medal on Monday.

The top ten athletes on of Starcount's Olympians Chart on Wednesday, August 1, are:

01.   Tom Daley (British - diving)
02.   Ryan Lochte (American - swimming)
03.   Michael Phelps  (American - swimming)
04.   Yi Siling (Chinese - shooting)
05.   Chen Yibing (Chinese - gymnastics )
06.   LeBron James (American - basketball )
07.   Missy Franklin (American - swimming)
08.   Kobe Bryant (Amercian - basketball)
09.   Usain Bolt (Jamaican - athletics)
10.   He Zi (Chinese - diving)

Social media monitoring site Starcount amalgamates social media data from across the world's 11 global social media platforms and then applies an algorithm to create a chart of social media popularity. See http://www.starcount.com/ for more details.