It’s official: we’re a nation of Twitter fiends. The UK tweeted about gaming more than any other European country in 2018.
Twitter revealed the stats in a blog post last week, which revealed that the UK is one of the top three countries that tweets about gaming the most, behind Japan in first place and the US in second. France and Korea followed in fourth and fifth place respectively.
In terms of esports organisations that were mentioned the most on Twitter, the UK’s Fnatic were in fourth place, behind FaZe Clan, OpTiC Gaming and Cloud9 in first, second and third place respectively.
TSM made it to number five, while London Spitfire were the ninth most-tweeted-about esports entity in 2018.
The esports players that received the most mentions on Twitter included Scumper (first), Doublelift (fourth) and Leffen (eighth).
Looking at events, E3 was the most tweeted about, followed by the Tokyo Game Show, the Game Awards and the 2018 League of Legends World Championship (Worlds).
The Overwatch League was in fifth place, ahead of the ELeague Boston Major and the London FaceIT Major to name a few.
Twitter’s head of gaming content partnerships, Rishi Chadha, also revealed that there were more than one billion tweets made about video games last year.
With over 1 BILLION tweets last year, 2018 was a tremendous year for Gaming on Twitter!
Here’s our 2018 recap, covering everything from the most tweeted games, to the countries who tweet the most about Gaming ??????https://t.co/F2jnslIFOP— Rishi Chadha (@RdotChadha) January 22, 2019
It all reaffirms that if you’re in esports or anything gaming-related, you need to have a presence on Twitter. On that note, why not give Esports News UK a follow on Twitter?
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
