Twitter reports gaming delivered 2.4B tweets in 2021

Twitter today released details on how gaming effected tweet traffic in 2021. According to the data, it was one of the biggest years for gaming ever, with over 2 billion tweets. Genshin Impact takes the top honors as Twitter’s most talked-about title.

Twitter’s gaming coverage grew by 14% over the last year, according to the company’s report. The number was also ten times the amount of gaming tweets made in 2017. Rishi Chadha, Twitter’s head of gaming content, said in a blog post, “The gaming community around the world came to Twitter to talk about the biggest moments of the year as in-person esports events returned to center stage, publishers dropped new games like Halo Infinite, media outlets continued to expand coverage of the space, and NFTs became a hot topic.”