The world of gaming has truly taken social media by storm, and in case you disagree, well, a new insight from Twitter might just make things clearer.
Micro-blogging platform boast an estimated 1.5 billion gaming tweets were shared on the app during the first half of 2022. To be more specific with the dates, that means tweets were sent between January 1st and June 30th, and that’s a staggering 36% increase compared to last year. .
Meanwhile, Twitter Gaming shared their insight into the situation, describing how it was Genshin Impact who managed to take the lead in terms of the game that most people adore talking about around the globe. As for second place, the award went to Wordle.
Since then, the company has released an entire list of which games were tweeted during the first half of 2022.
These included Ensemble Stars, Final Fantasy, and Project Sekai, which rounded out the top five games with Genshin Impact and Wordle taking the lead. After that, we have Apex Legends, Elden Ring, Fate/Grand Order, Valorant and The Legend of Zelda included in the top 10.
Similarly, Twitter shed light on which countries tweeted the most about games during that particular time period, and the top five countries include Japan, the US, South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia. Meanwhile, nations such as Brazil, the Philippines, India and the United Kingdom were included in the bottom half of the list with Mexico lagging behind in last place.
On the other hand, Twitter Gaming also highlighted specific esports-related teams that were the most talked about on the app. This included Loud Esports, Karmine Corp, Crazy Racoon, FaZe Clan and PaIN Gaming as well.
The bottom half of the list for the most commonly tweeted esports teams included G2 Esports, T1, Los Grandes, Fnatic, and Furia Exports.
After that, Twitter decided to rank the Top 5 Gaming Communities that showed the most engagement in the app. This included Retro Gaming, Splatoon!, Xbox Community, Valorant and Counter-Strike coming in last place.
Last but not least, Twitter revealed which gaming-themed Twitter spaces led the pack in terms of audience listening and engagement. The top spot went to Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard, Let’s Talk. This was said to have been organized on January 18.
Meanwhile, in second place came Talking About Summer Game Fest Plans & Ideas, which was organized on May 22. And in third place came the 100 Thieves Post LCS Talk which was organized on March 27th.
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