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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:
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"?
This got me thinking: I want to play around with Twitter. We've brought down TL for a couple of seconds on State of the Game and crash TheHandsomeNerd.com weekly. This week, I want to get #ESPORTS trending if only for a couple of seconds.
We generally hit peak concurrent about thirty minutes to an hour into State of the Game so I will most likely ask the chat to tweet all at once right at 05:00 GMT (+00:00).
I don't care if you watch the show (but by all means join us ^^) but if you find yourself awake at this time, throw up a tweet with the hashtag #ESPORTS in it. From my understanding this works better if no one is talking about it before hand, so don't tweet anything with #ESPORTS in it prior to this time.
Lets see if we can turn some heads to find out just what ESPORTS is or fail horribly and all laugh at the attempt.
See you then, I hope.
Edit: Tell people about this thread and the cause. Match my 10,000 from State of the Game, I dare you 
Edit 2: This will happen Wednesday, Dec 07 5:00am GMT (GMT+00:00).
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and crash TheHandsomeNerd.com weekly.
HAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
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Great idea. Anything to give eSports more coverage. I'm in!
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I will definitely participate!
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Oh JP, you so crafty.
Looking forward to the next SotG 
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Making a twitter account right now.......
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Supporting this. Looking forward to it
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GOGO #ESPORTS! Let's do itttt
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Its hard for us in EU to tweet in 6am
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You were right that shit was pretty scary.
+ Show Spoiler +Gotta toast some bugs later today, line em up!
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I will tweet as soon as i wake up then.
For #ESPORTS!
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On December 05 2011 20:22 FXOpen wrote:
The question I will ask, and i think its a good one.
Does twitter trending actually do anything?
Sometimes theres some really weird shit in the trending...
Who knows. Maybe we should link it to an article describing what ESPORTS is in all the posts?
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It's amazing how predictable it is how even the slightest hint of thehandsomenerd.com on any cast brings it down. Makes me chuckle every time.
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This will be fun. Can't wait for the SToG, though I'm going to be a bit sad that its the last one for the year  .
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Twitter seems to a staple for most of the Starcraft community, but it seems to me like a lot of people aren't a fan of it. That could be one reason, but the main (and most evident one) would certainly just be people's awareness of how much it matters. Getting #ESPORTS trending Worldwide, especially for an extended amount of time, would do a lot to show people that this isn't some weird thing and that it's very popular.
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On December 05 2011 20:22 DBrave wrote:Its hard for us in EU to tweet in 6am
set alarm, wake up, tweet, go to sleep! :D
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If anything shouldn't this just prove that twitter is basically useless? If 1000 tweets can get something trending worldwide then how may people are there actually using twitter? not may :-/
maybe we can save some time on STOG and not call out everyones twitter account every ep
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EPT
