Twitter reports 36% increase in gaming tweets in first half of 2022

Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That’s ‘billion’ with a ‘b’. It’s like if every single person in China tweeted once about video games, and then a hundred million of them needed a second tweet to finish a thought.

By the numbers it’s a 36% increase in tweets about gaming over last year. The huge jump in tweets was driven by big game releases like Elden Ring. Esports events like Call of Duty League, Valorant Champions Tour and Professional Gamers League Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also pushed the numbers.