| Turophile United Kingdom. April 07 2012 21:51. Posts 5 | Profile # |
| 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? |
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| Coal Sweden. April 07 2012 21:53. Posts 1516 | Profile # |
Cricket.. ^_^
But ye that's kinda funny :D |
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| Licmyobelisk Philippines. April 07 2012 21:53. Posts 3674 | Profile Blog # |
Damn acronyms!
Edit: I think it's time to start using #IGNProleague instead of #IPLLast edit: 2012-04-07 21:55:10 |
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| masterbreti Korea (South). April 07 2012 21:53. Posts 2547 | Profile Blog # |
| I'm not suprised about this at all. When I noticed the same acronym had been used. I felt that maybe someone down the line was going to start watching cricket instead of starcraft. |
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| pStar April 07 2012 21:54. Posts 987 | Profile Blog # |
ahahahahah.
I seen that as well. Silly people T_T |
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| Otolia France. April 07 2012 22:01. Posts 3052 | Profile Blog # |
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 ... |
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| Aristodemus England. April 07 2012 22:05. Posts 1689 | Profile # |
| Yeah the IPL is huge in India. |
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| milesfacade United Kingdom. April 07 2012 22:05. Posts 788 | Profile # |
| I would imagine the vast majority of the tweets would have related to ipl the cricket tournament. Shit format of the game, but it's incredibly popular :/ |
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| nooboon April 07 2012 22:06. Posts 1600 | Profile Blog # |
On April 07 2012 22:01 Otolia wrote:
Show nested quote +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 ...
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? |
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| Eiaco April 07 2012 22:13. Posts 170 | Profile # |
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.  |
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| Jtom Ireland. April 07 2012 22:17. Posts 1044 | Profile # |
| A simple twitter search can show you that, while IGN Proleague probably contributed to the number of #ipl tweets this weekend, the Indian Premier League has enough fans to get that number of tweets on its own. |
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| DKR United Kingdom. April 07 2012 22:31. Posts 592 | Profile Blog # |
India a country of 1.2 billion cricket mad people probably meant to tweet IGN ':D'
Notwithstanding the fact the tournament is huge globally Last edit: 2012-04-07 22:33:23 |
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| BLinD-RawR India. April 07 2012 22:37. Posts 24599 | Profile Blog # |
| lol yeah I knew this was going to happen please people when you tweet your support please use #IGNProleague not #IPL |
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| dartoo India. April 07 2012 22:53. Posts 2211 | Profile # |
| It's totally probable, even though I dont really watch it,a lot of people do, and it pretty much one of the biggest sporting/entertainment events of the year. |
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| XiGua Sweden. April 07 2012 23:02. Posts 2909 | Profile Blog # |
Haha, that's very funny.
Oh well, if IGN uses the acronym IPL then there's no one to blame other than IGN.  |
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| BLinD-RawR India. April 07 2012 23:06. Posts 24599 | Profile Blog # |
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 |
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| DarkPlasmaBall United States. April 07 2012 23:07. Posts 19998 | Profile Blog # |
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 ^^ |
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| JOJOsc2news April 07 2012 23:12. Posts 2999 | Profile Blog # |
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"
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| aebriol Norway. April 07 2012 23:18. Posts 2064 | Profile # |
| It doesn't matter, it's just good marketing ... Both IPL and IPL can claim 'insane numbers' ... |
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| MVTaylor United Kingdom. April 07 2012 23:22. Posts 2774 | Profile Blog # |
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 |
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