Indian Premier League claiming IPL's tweets
Forum Index > Closed |
Turophile
United Kingdom5 Posts
| ||
Coal
Sweden1535 Posts
But ye that's kinda funny :D | ||
Licmyobelisk
Philippines3682 Posts
Edit: I think it's time to start using #IGNProleague instead of #IPL | ||
masterbreti
Korea (South)2711 Posts
| ||
pStar
996 Posts
I seen that as well. Silly people T_T | ||
Otolia
France5805 Posts
On April 07 2012 21:51 Turophile wrote: Hi I've just been watching the Indian Premier League (Cricket) on TV and they are claiming that they have an unprecedented number of tweets (over 200k) about the games today, I can't help feeling that some people might have been tweeting #IGNProleague as #IPL. Anyone else think this could be the case? It's maybe true. Still Indian Premier League has a wider market than IPL (being in a country where 1/7th of the world lives help). Furthermore the indians were using #IPL before the IGN ProLeague was created ... | ||
Aristodemus
England1969 Posts
| ||
milesfacade
United Kingdom799 Posts
| ||
nooboon
2602 Posts
On April 07 2012 22:01 Otolia wrote: It's maybe true. Still Indian Premier League has a wider market than IPL (being in a country where 1/7th of the world lives help). Furthermore the indians were using #IPL before the IGN ProLeague was created ... Or that both the tweets tag thingys merged causing them to both be inflated....but in that case wouldn't it mean that IGN Pro League was tweeted over 200k times as well? | ||
Eiaco
170 Posts
On the other hand, its nice to see that my 2 favourate sports are linked somehow. Looking forward to both competitions. | ||
Jtom
Ireland1044 Posts
| ||
DKR
United Kingdom622 Posts
Notwithstanding the fact the tournament is huge globally | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES48987 Posts
| ||
dartoo
India2889 Posts
| ||
XiGua
Sweden3085 Posts
Oh well, if IGN uses the acronym IPL then there's no one to blame other than IGN. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES48987 Posts
On April 07 2012 22:53 dartoo wrote: It's totally probable, even though I dont really watch it,a lot of people do, and it pretty much one of the biggest pointless money throwing events of the year. thats how I see it | ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42207 Posts
On April 07 2012 22:05 Aristodemus wrote: Yeah the IPL is huge in India. Made me lol Someone should tell them the real reason why they're getting so popular. And the answer is an e-sport, not a traditional sport ^^ | ||
JOJOsc2news
3000 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:07 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Made me lol Someone should tell them the real reason why they're getting so popular. And the answer is an e-sport, not a traditional sport ^^ We should use this to spread the love for eSports. We should intentionally tweet #IPL and then link to IGN Pro League or something else eSports related. Or even tweeting something like "Hello Cricket fan! When I tweet #IPL, I actually tweet about this [esport link] #eSports" | ||
aebriol
Norway2066 Posts
| ||
MVTaylor
United Kingdom2893 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:07 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Made me lol Someone should tell them the real reason why they're getting so popular. And the answer is an e-sport, not a traditional sport ^^ India is a country of over a billion people who are some of the most passionate cricket fans in the world. It's also a country experiencing amazing growth and an influx of technology lately. I do not think the ign pro league can hold a candle to the IPL. Why don't you educate yourself, the average ipl player makes 4 million dollars a year. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Premier_League | ||
n0ah
United States250 Posts
| ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42207 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:22 MVTaylor wrote: India is a country of over a billion people who are some of the most passionate cricket fans in the world. It's also a country experiencing amazing growth and an influx of technology lately. I do not think the ign pro league can hold a candle to the IPL. Why don't you educate yourself, the average ipl player makes 4 million dollars a year. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Premier_League ........ And yet this weekend is the only weekend they receive that measured surge of Twitter posts. I'm pretty sure the video gaming and computer community measures up quite well against the cricket community when it comes to blogging. Way to not understand any context. I'm not saying that SC2 pro-gamers are more successful than other professional sports players lmao. Totally missing the point there, champ. | ||
dartoo
India2889 Posts
Search ipl, and see if you can find a tweet about ign, there might be one by david ting, but thats it, and it increases by 20 tweets every 5 or so seconds. | ||
kochanfe
Micronesia1338 Posts
On April 07 2012 22:13 Eiaco wrote: Thats kind of funny if its true. But I cant help think that the IPL(cricket) is many MANY times bigger than IPL(SC2). On the other hand, its nice to see that my 2 favourate sports are linked somehow. Looking forward to both competitions. This is quite a silly thing to say. | ||
MVTaylor
United Kingdom2893 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:26 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: ........ And yet this weekend is the only weekend they receive that measured surge of Twitter posts. I'm pretty sure the video gaming and computer community measures up quite well against the cricket community when it comes to blogging. Way to not understand any context. I'm not saying that SC2 pro-gamers are more successful than other professional sports players lmao. Totally missing the point there, champ. http://hashtags.org/ipl I trust you have research to back you're argument up? As otherwise it's pretty hard to argue sc2 has anything to do with it. If you check the twitter trend graph for #ipl at: http://trendistic.indextank.com/ipl/_30-days You notice a large spike when the Ipl 2012 season stats and if you flip it to 180 days almost nothing before that, those 180 days which obviously included ipl3 when it wasn't competing with the ipl. | ||
Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:35 MVTaylor wrote: http://hashtags.org/ipl I trust you have research to back you're argument up? ofc there are no esports IPL tweets right now, its 8-10 am in the US and there are no games at the moment. but i think in like 4hours there will be some IGN tweets as well | ||
Dustus
United Kingdom86 Posts
If we wait till next week and see if their tweets go back to their normal number range then I think you can say that it was definitely the starcraft causing it | ||
moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
T20 is such a watered down version of the game to cater to the foreigners who want an alternative to football/baseball T_T ODI/Test are so much better. | ||
GeorgeForeman
United States1746 Posts
| ||
Cinim
Denmark866 Posts
| ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES48987 Posts
On April 08 2012 00:11 Cinim wrote: I used #IPL4, that one works that also works. | ||
MVTaylor
United Kingdom2893 Posts
Here is the twitter stats for IGNProLeague over the last 180 days. http://trendistic.indextank.com/ignproleague/_180-days Point #1: "There is too little data for a full chart so we are showing only recent activity." - No one gives a damn about the IGNProLeague in any significant number. Point #2: The twitter stats for #IGNProLeague peaked at 11PM PST yesterday with a whopping 42 tweets in that hour! Poiint #3: The statistics for the hashtag ipl4 are even worse. Here is the twitter stats for the Indian Premier League. The 2012 Season began earlier this week. The 2011 season finished 28th May 2011 so is not relevant to the 180 days graph. http://trendistic.indextank.com/ipl/_180-days Those 180 days would include the period where IPL3 was played, notice there isn't even a blip. Flipping that graph to just the past 7 days: http://trendistic.indextank.com/ipl/_7-days Shows a peak on Tuesday equal to 0.06% of all traffic on twitter. Given that by recent statistics there are 340 million tweets a day on twitter: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=tweets per day&meta=#q=tweets per day&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ei=2leAT776EuyY0QWZqNiNBw&ved=0CBAQpwUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1f9f75d11f399bcc&biw=1280&bih=933 Then there are approximately 14 million tweets an hour so 0.06% of that is 8,500 tweets about the IPL from 9am to 10am PST on Tuesday. India is a country of over a billion people where the national sport is Cricket. Along with that Cricket is a big international sport, the IPL was shown on ITV4 in the UK last year for example. In contrast yesterday the IGNProLeague Starcraft stream peaked at around 60,000 viewers yesterday. Even if you were to add the second stream and LoL numbers that only brings it up to 240,000 viewers. In the UK alone the IPL was watched on ITV4 by nearly half a million people per broadcast last year. In India of those over a billion people a cumulative total of 146 million people watched the IPL last season. To those arguing that more people involved with esports also have an online presence may be true but here are some more stats. According to alexa.com you can find that http://www.teamliquid.net is the 3,980th most popular website. By contrast http://www.cricinfo.com is the 170th most popular website in world and the 16th most popular website in India. When I put IPL in to google it isn't until I get to the fourth page that I get anything to do with esports. | ||
phANT1m
South Africa535 Posts
But for the people saying the cricket league is so huge etc which is true the thing is i doubt there fan base reside that much on twitter. From friends and that i know they arent really into the whole twitter thing. Just my 5 cents. | ||
HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
| ||
Slardar
Canada7592 Posts
| ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42207 Posts
On April 08 2012 00:48 Slardar wrote: Wait, so you guys were tweeting about SC2? Cricket is the bees knees. HA! But SC2 is... The CATSPAJAMAS. | ||
pavement ist rad
United States226 Posts
| ||
FreudianTrip
Switzerland1983 Posts
While I'm here: | ||
blacklist_member
Australia318 Posts
| ||
tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
On April 07 2012 23:22 MVTaylor wrote: India is a country of over a billion people who are some of the most passionate cricket fans in the world. It's also a country experiencing amazing growth and an influx of technology lately. I do not think the ign pro league can hold a candle to the IPL. Why don't you educate yourself, the average ipl player makes 4 million dollars a year. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Premier_League I'm Aussie so I'm educated in the IPL, but one thing missing from your post is that the average IGNProLeague viewer is far more likely to tweet about it than the average IPL viewer. | ||
UmiNotsuki
United States633 Posts
| ||
HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
| ||
snailz
Croatia900 Posts
On April 08 2012 00:58 tyCe wrote: I'm Aussie so I'm educated in the IPL, but one thing missing from your post is that the average IGNProLeague viewer is far more likely to tweet about it than the average IPL viewer. and that's why it is unprecedented numbers for the Indians... one doesn't go without the other, no need to make them fight. they helped each other, gg no re | ||
DTK920
Canada46 Posts
| ||
Piledriver
United States1697 Posts
Quoting for visibility since a lot of people seem to be missing this. On April 08 2012 00:39 MVTaylor wrote: Okay, maybe I need to make one final post on the matter so people can actually understand this. Here is the twitter stats for IGNProLeague over the last 180 days. http://trendistic.indextank.com/ignproleague/_180-days Point #1: "There is too little data for a full chart so we are showing only recent activity." - No one gives a damn about the IGNProLeague in any significant number. Point #2: The twitter stats for #IGNProLeague peaked at 11PM PST yesterday with a whopping 42 tweets in that hour! Poiint #3: The statistics for the hashtag ipl4 are even worse. Here is the twitter stats for the Indian Premier League. The 2012 Season began earlier this week. The 2011 season finished 28th May 2011 so is not relevant to the 180 days graph. http://trendistic.indextank.com/ipl/_180-days Those 180 days would include the period where IPL3 was played, notice there isn't even a blip. Flipping that graph to just the past 7 days: http://trendistic.indextank.com/ipl/_7-days Shows a peak on Tuesday equal to 0.06% of all traffic on twitter. Given that by recent statistics there are 340 million tweets a day on twitter: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=tweets per day&meta=#q=tweets per day&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ei=2leAT776EuyY0QWZqNiNBw&ved=0CBAQpwUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1f9f75d11f399bcc&biw=1280&bih=933 Then there are approximately 14 million tweets an hour so 0.06% of that is 8,500 tweets about the IPL from 9am to 10am PST on Tuesday. India is a country of over a billion people where the national sport is Cricket. Along with that Cricket is a big international sport, the IPL was shown on ITV4 in the UK last year for example. In contrast yesterday the IGNProLeague Starcraft stream peaked at around 60,000 viewers yesterday. Even if you were to add the second stream and LoL numbers that only brings it up to 240,000 viewers. In the UK alone the IPL was watched on ITV4 by nearly half a million people per broadcast last year. In India of those over a billion people a cumulative total of 146 million people watched the IPL last season. To those arguing that more people involved with esports also have an online presence may be true but here are some more stats. According to alexa.com you can find that http://www.teamliquid.net is the 3,980th most popular website. By contrast http://www.cricinfo.com is the 170th most popular website in world and the 16th most popular website in India. When I put IPL in to google it isn't until I get to the fourth page that I get anything to do with esports. | ||
Eiaco
170 Posts
No, its not. Indian Premier League sells out 40-70,000 seater statiums basically every game. Most players get paid in excess of $1,000,000 per year and people like Dhoni probably get around $10,000,000 per year and it is viewed by millions and millions of people in countries all over the world (More people view the IPL than MLB). IGN Pro League is viewed by around 50,000 people and has a prize pool of $150k. | ||
Amotion
Australia2 Posts
On April 08 2012 00:58 tyCe wrote: I'm Aussie so I'm educated in the IPL, but one thing missing from your post is that the average IGNProLeague viewer is far more likely to tweet about it than the average IPL viewer. Well... Something like 8% of Twitter users are from India (Acorrding to this) so I wouldn't be too sure about that. Given that IPL4 is likely to have viewership in the hundreds of thousands and IPL cricket has viewers well over 100 million, I would daresay the IPL4 is not likely to be a major impact. | ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42207 Posts
On April 08 2012 01:25 Amotion wrote: Well... Something like 8% of Twitter users are from India (Acorrding to this) so I wouldn't be too sure about that. Given that IPL4 is likely to have viewership in the hundreds of thousands and IPL cricket has viewers well over 100 million, I would daresay the IPL4 is not likely to be a major impact. And 1/3 are from the U.S. alone lol. That's more than four times as many Twitter updates coming from America than India. The percentage of Twitter is clearly not a strong argument for India. It's how large and how vocal your community is. The cricket community is much larger, but the percentage representation they're going to receive via blogging isn't going to be as high in comparison to a computer-based group. What percentage of cricket fans have Twitters? Now what percentage of SC2 fans have Twitters? The cricket site even said that this weekend in particular is an unprecedented number of tweets. | ||
Eiaco
170 Posts
On April 08 2012 01:47 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: And 1/3 are from the U.S. alone lol. That's more than four times as many Twitter updates coming from America than India. The percentage of Twitter is clearly not a strong argument for India. It's how large and how vocal your community is. The cricket community is much larger, but the percentage representation they're going to receive via blogging isn't going to be as high in comparison to a computer-based group. What percentage of cricket fans have Twitters? Now what percentage of SC2 fans have Twitters? The cricket site even said that this weekend in particular is an unprecedented number of tweets. Most people who watch the IPL in India will probably no afford computers. People in other countries such as UK and Australia will probably watch it but no tweet about it. | ||
Ayush_SCtoss
India3050 Posts
| ||
ParkwayDrive
United States328 Posts
| ||
Ares[Effort]
DEMACIA6550 Posts
| ||
| ||