Twitter reported that tweets about video games during the first (partial) half of 2021 grew by 18% compared to the same period last year.
In 2020, we recall that over 2 billion tweets were published in total , and Animal Crossing: New Horizons became the most talked about game on the social network .
As of this year, Twitter users most often wrote about:
- Genshin impact
- Apex legends
- Ensemble stars
- Final Fantasy
- Animal crossing
- Knives out
- Fortnite
- Monster hunter
- Fate / Grand Order
- Minecraft.
The social network also spoke about the countries where the most tweets about games are written:
- Japan
- USA
- South Korea
- Brazil
- Thailand
- Philippines
- India
- United Kingdom
- France
- Spain.
And the last exhibition E3 2021 was most often written in the following countries:
- USA
- Japan
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- Brazil
- France
- Canada
- Mexico
- Germany
- Argentina
The most watched video on Twitter from E3 2021 was the Elden Ring trailer , and most often users wrote about the following games from the exhibition:
- continuation of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Elden ring
- Battlefield 2042
- Halo infinite
- Forza Horizon 5.