Twitter reports 36% increase in gaming tweets in first half of 2022
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Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That’s ‘billion’ with a ‘b’. It’s like if every single person in China tweeted once about video games, and then a hundred million of them needed a second tweet to finish a thought.
By the numbers it’s a 36% increase in tweets about gaming over last year. The huge jump in tweets was driven by big game releases like Elden Ring. Esports events like Call of Duty League, Valorant Champions Tour and Professional Gamers League Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also pushed the numbers.
E3 imploding and all of the different events like the Xbox Showcase, Playstation’s State of Play and Summer Game Fest also contributed to the sheer amount of tweets this year. More events spread out means more conversations happening for longer.
Genshin Impact, the number one tweeted about video game in 2021, is still at the top halfway through 2022. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Wordle took the number two spot.
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Though after Wordle’s sale to the New York Times the tweets about it died off pretty quick. We’ll see how it does by the end of 2022.
Twitter’s blog post breaks down a number of categories for a deeper dive in the data, but we’re here to talk about games. Specifically we’re here to talk about the top 10 games of 2022, according to tweets made about them.
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