India among the list of top 10 countries who tweeted most about Esports in 2021

Online Gaming industry has successfully created a spot in the Indian market, and the pandemic has helped the E-sports industry a lot during the last year or two as a large of people have started streaming. A research from Newzoo has shown that the E-sports world will generate around $1.79 Billion in 2022.

India managed to enter the list of top 10 countries that tweeted the most about E-sports or games. India stands still at 10th position in the list.

E-sports community around the world is coming to different social media sites to connect with the viewers and last year in 2021, there were more than 2.4 billion tweets about gaming worldwide and the tweets has increased 10x  as of 2017.

E-sports includes different genres of games which includes Football, First-Person Shoot, Multi-player Online Gaming Arena, Counter Strike etc, lets discuss in detail about the countries who tweeted the most about games in 2021.

Top 10 Countries Tweeting about games are as follows:-

  1. Japan
  2. United Stated
  3. Korea
  4. Thailand
  5. Brazil
  6. Philippines
  7. Indonesia
  8. United Kingdom
  9. France
  10. India

Leading the table was Chinese action Genshin Impact while Fate, Animal Crossing, Apex Legends, Knives Out and Fortnite are also the part of the list. According to the Twitter Blog, 10 most talked-about games of 2021 are as follows:-

  1. Genshin Impact
  2. Apex Legends
  3. Ensemble Stars
  4. Final Fantasy
  5. Fate/Grand Order
  6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  7. Knives Out
  8. Minecraft
  9. Project Sekai
  10. Fortnite

Let’s talk about how micro blogging site Twitter numbers which clearly indicates that the ratio of Tweets from 2017 to till now on E Sports has increased 10 times and with third wave striking again and people working from home might see new players who can enter the field of E Sports and explore the wide opportunity that this new sporting ecosystem is ready to offer to all aspiring players.

In 2020, Indian sports lovers started connecting over a game introduced back in 2020 popularly known as Genshin Impact which became Twitter favorite topic in India in no time.

Indian gaming enthusiast not only prefer taking about games but they also talk about games, and following ongoing leagues, tournaments and e sports events and also some of the gamers from India have connected via live audio conversations on Twitter spaces and in this regard countries like Japan, South Korea and US are way ahead of other countries.