The Gaming Buzz on Twitter: June 26
- Scribbled on June 26th, 2009 by Jordan Lund
- Filed in Features, Game Genres, Platforms, The Gaming Buzz
[This is a new weekly column regarding the video game buzz using Tweet My Gaming to track game popularity.]
GamerDNA has done something special with Twitter and that’s Tweet My Gaming, which collects the number of tweets about specific games and charting them over time. This allows us to see who’s talking about what games and gauge popularity. In this column we’ll be tracking this on a weekly basis, sort of a “Top 10 Most Popular Games” pulling the data from the service.
In the last 7 days, the Top 10 Tweeted Titles are:
- 1. The Sims 3 (PC) 16491
- 2. World of Warcraft (PC) 12012
- 3. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) 6103
- 4. Fallout 3 (MultiPlatform) 5284
- 5. Second Life (PC) 4665
- 6. Wii Fit (Wii) 4564
- 7. Call of Duty 4 (Multiplatform) 4209
- 8. Fight Night Round 4 (Multiplatform) 3357
- 9. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Multiplatform) 3168
- 10. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) 2996
It’s interesting seeing the huge jump from 2nd to 3rd place, fully a factor of 2, between World of Warcraft and Halo 3, which basically shows how The Sims and WoW are social experiences on PCs, as is #5 Second Life, even though some feel it has “jumped the shark”.
The other thing to note is the lack of new releases. Fight Night Round 4 seems to have made an impact at #8, as did Ghostbusters at #9, but the rest of the slots are taken by games which have been around quite a while.
The Conduit, supposedly one of the saving graces for quality titles on the Wii, placed 17th (1821 tweets) on the weekly chart. Prototype? One of the more hyped titles? 19th (1564 tweets). Other recent releases such as Infamous (1678 tweets all time, not in the past week) don’t rank at all.
We’ll be back every week charting the ups and downs, measuring what’s getting (and what’s NOT getting) the buzz on Twitter.
[Note: Perfect World was removed due to the idiosyncratic nature of TMG to include all references to a "Perfect World", regardless of context.]
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
[...] the top two titles are World of Warcraft and The Sims 3, although they have swapped positions from last week; the difference between #1 and #2 is a mere few hundred tweets. They also once again crush the #3 [...]