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Remb
Profile Joined August 2011
United States190 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-03 23:05:48
December 03 2011 23:04 GMT
#1
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Artosis and Tasteless love to promote SC2, and last night during the GSL finals it worked. GSL was trending worldwide for hours on twitter and someone wrote an interesting article on how it works and why it's important.

GSL Trending on Twitter: Stats and Case Study on How Trending Works

Never underestimate the power of an influental person. When Tasteless & Artosis says you should hashtag #GSL – people get to the computer and actually do it.


Other communities helps a lot. People during this final gathered on Reddit and TeamLiquid – together people tweeted like crazy.

Big conferences and events should learn more about how this actually works – maybe even have a special tag for the final day/event.




This is great and really spreads interest in the game. I myself got interested in SC2 because someone made a GSL LR thread on a very active gaming board a year ago. I think all casters should try this to some degree. Promoting Starcraft is always good.

So when Tastosis says "Spread the word! Hashtag GSL! Don't just go to Reddit and TL, tell people who don't know about Starcraft!", it really does work and it is one of the reasons why Starcraft 2 is so popular internationally.
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fy12345
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada151 Posts
December 03 2011 23:11 GMT
#2
good for starcraft, gj to everyone
Tommie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
China658 Posts
December 03 2011 23:16 GMT
#3
Yea more people need to know this sport is freaking awesome. Finally the game is getting so big and finals so hyped that people who watch it are like: oh man if this many people are this hyped theres gotta be something to it. GOGGOOGOGOGGO SC2
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Cokefreak
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8095 Posts
December 03 2011 23:17 GMT
#4
E-Sports fighting! GSL should be up there every single day imo.
Clarityxo
Profile Joined April 2011
Scotland174 Posts
December 03 2011 23:19 GMT
#5
I am proud, good job lads.
BlueBoxSC
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States582 Posts
December 03 2011 23:23 GMT
#6
eSports taking over!

I used to distaste the amount of Twitter promotion (never a big fan of the site myself, really) but now...

Twitter is saving eSports. <3
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Conquerer67
Profile Joined May 2011
United States605 Posts
December 03 2011 23:34 GMT
#7
Holy shit, this is pretty good for e-sports.

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Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37065 Posts
December 03 2011 23:36 GMT
#8
YEAHHHHHH!!!! SC2 SCENEN GROWING MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY BABY!!!
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Sina92
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden1303 Posts
December 03 2011 23:46 GMT
#9
good
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PlacidPanda
Profile Joined September 2011
United States246 Posts
December 04 2011 00:05 GMT
#10
SC2 BABY WE'RE AS GOOD AS HEY ARNOLD!!!!!!!
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iky43210
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2099 Posts
December 04 2011 00:08 GMT
#11
lol, wth is hey arnold
Suncrusher
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada55 Posts
December 04 2011 00:09 GMT
#12
I think Leenock was trending too during MLG Providence. This is awesome.
Quote?
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
December 04 2011 00:11 GMT
#13
On December 04 2011 09:08 iky43210 wrote:
lol, wth is hey arnold

wiki
I don't even know why it is trending lol.
KhAmun
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1005 Posts
December 04 2011 00:11 GMT
#14
Nestea trended worldwide in his crazy game against I think it was sC on crossfire as well.
It's actually a really really big deal when this happens, and great job to everyone that contributed.
Bobster
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany3075 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-04 00:12:53
December 04 2011 00:12 GMT
#15
That article didn't tell me anything about why "it's important". I've never seen the top 10 trending list except when someone explicitly showed it to me.

Do people click on these trending topics and get informed? I don't get how appearing on that list is a big deal or anything.

The only actual stat I could get out of that article was that #GSL was twittered 4500 times.

On December 04 2011 09:11 KhAmun wrote:
Nestea trended worldwide in his crazy game against I think it was sC on crossfire as well.
It's actually a really really big deal when this happens, and great job to everyone that contributed.

Why?

Not being snarky or anything, just curious.
Non0
Profile Joined April 2010
United States100 Posts
December 04 2011 00:28 GMT
#16
I click occasionally on trending topics just to see what is going on. It makes GSL and SC2 more visible to those outside the community.
EchoZ
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Japan5041 Posts
December 04 2011 00:35 GMT
#17
Hell yeah :D.
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rod-
Profile Joined June 2011
Norway379 Posts
December 04 2011 00:36 GMT
#18
On December 04 2011 09:08 iky43210 wrote:
lol, wth is hey arnold


hey arnold is/was an awesome show:D

I got a twitter account just to follow games and promote sc2, nice to see it trending.
IMmvp~~
wklbishop
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1286 Posts
December 04 2011 00:40 GMT
#19
It's less the effect of Tastosis and more the effect of the games due to the repeatedly calls for hashtagging by Tastosis not usually succeeding in getting it trending.
Gameplay > Personality
aviator116
Profile Joined November 2011
United States820 Posts
December 04 2011 00:41 GMT
#20
oh yeahhhhh
all credit goes to the casting archon of course
and probably MVP/Nestea
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