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A Social Experiment with Twitter and ESPORTS - Page 4

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YourMom
Profile Joined April 2010
Romania565 Posts
December 05 2011 13:50 GMT
#61
How did you crash TL.net? That seems so weird to me.
I'm very good at making carriers.
TheLOLas
Profile Joined May 2011
United States646 Posts
December 05 2011 13:53 GMT
#62
I'm going to make a twitter account just so that I can do this. GO ESPORTS!!!
1ManArmy
Profile Joined June 2011
Netherlands895 Posts
December 05 2011 13:55 GMT
#63
On December 05 2011 22:50 YourMom wrote:
How did you crash TL.net? That seems so weird to me.


During SOTG sometimes threads on TL are discussed. The huge amount of people who login at the same time to read that thread crashes TL sometimes for a few seconds
Wouldst thou receive my all-in, cousin? - Choya
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-05 13:57:50
December 05 2011 13:57 GMT
#64

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With over 1300 tweets in an hour GSL became the trending topic worldwide on Twitter.

We have 10,000+ watching streams on a daily basis. For the show I run, State of the Game, we easily break 10,000 every Tuesday at 10:30 CDT. If it only takes 1300 tweets (granted I know this was in the middle of the night) then what in the world are people doing when we as casters say "go tweet about the GSL / MLG / IPL / NASL / whatever"?


Quoting from the article:
and it’s mainly because of the % increase in tweets

This means that it only took 1300 tweets because the average amount of tweets was so low in the first place. If 1300 tweets gets the new "average" than it will be way harder to get trending again.

Meaning that this will be most likely a one-time thing.
TheSilverfox
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden1928 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-05 14:12:13
December 05 2011 14:08 GMT
#65
On December 05 2011 20:16 itmeJP wrote:
Many people saw the GSL trend worldwide for an hour and stay relevant in NA on Friday night / Saturday morning. There was a post that discussed this on Teamliquid already. The original article stated:

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With over 1300 tweets in an hour GSL became the trending topic worldwide on Twitter.

We have 10,000+ watching streams on a daily basis. For the show I run, State of the Game, we easily break 10,000 every Tuesday at 10:30 CDT. If it only takes 1300 tweets (granted I know this was in the middle of the night) then what in the world are people doing when we as casters say "go tweet about the GSL / MLG / IPL / NASL / whatever"?


I'm the one who wrote the original article regarding GSL Trending and how Trending on Twitter works, and I work with this kind of stuff

I think this is an interesting idea but there are some stuff you have to remember here:
  • #eSports is much harder to get trending than both NASL and GSL. The amount of tweets for esports are much more than the amount of tweets on GSL and NASL.

  • If people start tweeting about eSports before the show it will be much harder to get trending on State of the game. It's all about trending % in a short amount of time.

  • 1300 tweets/hour will not likely be enough on the keyword #esports. I can look in to this deeper regarding statistics on how much it will take/how many people. (Pure spam for a keyword does not work that well).

If you want to know more please feel free to ask. I have the tools for stats and can answer questions regarding how Twitter Trending works.
Also known as Joinsimon on Twitter/Reddit
pestilenz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Denmark379 Posts
December 05 2011 14:15 GMT
#66
You need someone like Idra or day9 to retweet this, that will help a lot i think.

Why only go for the gold when you can go for Grand Masters
You can attack with this?!
ishyishy
Profile Joined February 2011
United States826 Posts
December 05 2011 14:22 GMT
#67
I dont really care about twitter that much but I love sotg and JP so I'll do it :D
Jingster
Profile Joined March 2011
Estonia4 Posts
December 05 2011 14:27 GMT
#68
I would participate if i would have holydays cause i have school soo sry but il 2 all i can to stay up until 3 am! I live in EU soo thats why!
Its not Easy, Its not hard Starcraft 2 its the way of the god! If i get to progamer status i will bringit 24/7!
Flew
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom133 Posts
December 05 2011 14:29 GMT
#69

Cool experiment. I'll look out for the results.

I read the article on Twitter trending, and it seems it's down to how much increase in use a hashtag gets.

I've just looked up #esports on Twitter and found about 22 in the last hour. If #esports is something which gets steady use, it might be worth considering a different tag.
Zuxo
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden395 Posts
December 05 2011 14:31 GMT
#70
On December 05 2011 21:25 demonik187 wrote:
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On December 05 2011 20:24 ELA wrote:
You have my sword!

And MY axe!


I used to be an adventurer like you guys. But then I took an arrow to the knee.
I'm a mother******* lyrical wordsmith, mother******* genius
Hnnngg
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1101 Posts
December 05 2011 14:31 GMT
#71
On December 05 2011 23:29 Flew wrote:

Cool experiment. I'll look out for the results.

I read the article on Twitter trending, and it seems it's down to how much increase in use a hashtag gets.

I've just looked up #esports on Twitter and found about 22 in the last hour. If #esports is something which gets steady use, it might be worth considering a different tag.


JP said he doesn't want a steady use for #ESPORTS, this is a test to see if we could do other things in the future.
Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
December 05 2011 14:47 GMT
#72
I don't understand the point. I can't imagine it having anything more than (at best) a negligable influence on esports related things even if it was perfectly successful. Are people really sat on Twitter waiting to see what's trending?
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Eluadyl
Profile Joined May 2010
Turkey364 Posts
December 05 2011 14:50 GMT
#73
I'm in.

maybe we should also tweet #glhf just for lulz
Not enough energy
Hairy
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1169 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-05 15:07:42
December 05 2011 15:04 GMT
#74
I thought the point of twitter was so that utter prats could further their celebrity stalking by listening to each dribble of "news" that's shared. I don't know about anyone else, but I view twitter as the realm of the idiot youth and the rise of the "social" zombies who do nothing but talk on facebook to each other about nothing because all they're doing with their lives is sitting on facebook talking to each other about nothing. Something "trending" on twitter would give me negative, not positive, associations.

Instead of spending the time registering and signing up for twitter, figuring out what to do, and broadcasting your pointless 140 character "tweet" out to the world that no-one will even read because you have no followers (partly because you're a new member, partly because no-one cares what you say), why not spend that time doing something USEFUL for e-sports like telling a new person about why the game is so great. Or hell, just go play a game of starcraft. There's no need to artificially inflate the pointless social media chirruping - just go and help grow ESPORTS! The social shit that inevitably and unavoidably surrounds everything nowadays will grow appropriately of its own accord anyway.


EDIT: I fear I am turning into a grumpy old man
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits
TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
December 05 2011 15:08 GMT
#75
You have my axe jp.
Eve online FC, lover of all competition
Hnnngg
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1101 Posts
December 05 2011 15:08 GMT
#76
On December 06 2011 00:04 Hairy wrote:
why not spend that time doing something USEFUL for e-sports like telling a new person about why the game is so great. Or hell, just go play a game of starcraft. There's no need to artificially inflate the pointless social media chirruping - just go and help grow ESPORTS! The social shit that inevitably and unavoidably surrounds everything nowadays will grow appropriately of its own accord anyway.


Sorry but that's not useful.

Neither is the new person, sponsorship is everything in eSports. The reason people like to report numbers is so that sponsors can look at those numbers and then they can advertise to those people.
3DGlaDOS
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany607 Posts
December 05 2011 15:11 GMT
#77
On December 05 2011 20:22 DBrave wrote:
Its hard for us in EU to tweet in 6am

yeah =(
would defenetely join in if I was awake at that time....
Hello Sir, do you have a minute for atheism?
Hairy
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1169 Posts
December 05 2011 15:21 GMT
#78
On December 06 2011 00:08 Hnnngg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 06 2011 00:04 Hairy wrote:
why not spend that time doing something USEFUL for e-sports like telling a new person about why the game is so great. Or hell, just go play a game of starcraft. There's no need to artificially inflate the pointless social media chirruping - just go and help grow ESPORTS! The social shit that inevitably and unavoidably surrounds everything nowadays will grow appropriately of its own accord anyway.


Sorry but that's not useful.

Neither is the new person, sponsorship is everything in eSports. The reason people like to report numbers is so that sponsors can look at those numbers and then they can advertise to those people.

I would have thought maintaining a large number of people actually playing the game would be useful.
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits
Hnnngg
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1101 Posts
December 05 2011 15:27 GMT
#79
On December 06 2011 00:21 Hairy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 06 2011 00:08 Hnnngg wrote:
On December 06 2011 00:04 Hairy wrote:
why not spend that time doing something USEFUL for e-sports like telling a new person about why the game is so great. Or hell, just go play a game of starcraft. There's no need to artificially inflate the pointless social media chirruping - just go and help grow ESPORTS! The social shit that inevitably and unavoidably surrounds everything nowadays will grow appropriately of its own accord anyway.


Sorry but that's not useful.

Neither is the new person, sponsorship is everything in eSports. The reason people like to report numbers is so that sponsors can look at those numbers and then they can advertise to those people.

I would have thought maintaining a large number of people actually playing the game would be useful.


Only for the people who made the game.

I don't play SC2, all the people I watch SC2 with have never played.

Playing video games isn't necessary for eSports, same with Sports.
evil_lesh
Profile Joined July 2010
Latvia68 Posts
December 05 2011 15:39 GMT
#80
Hell yeah, night shift tomorrow, gonna watch some SotG!
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