#LabanPilipinas trends worldwide, fans tweet messages of support for Gilas

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#LabanPilipinas trends worldwide, fans tweet messages of support for Gilas
Gilas Pilipinas will face Hong Kong next on on Thursday, September 24, at 9:30 am, in the FIBA Asia 2015 games

MANILA, Philippines – Gilas Pilipinas may have unexpectedly dropped their first FIBA Asia game, but Filipinos surely made it known to the Twitterverse that their hearts are stronger than a single loss.

Shortly after Gilas suffered an upset against FIBA Asia first timer Palestine, #LabanPilipinas, the country’s battle cry for international sports tournaments, surged to the top of the Philippine’s trending Twitter topics at number 2, just behind #ALDUBMoreThanWords.

#LabanPilipinas also trended worldwide during the game, and at one point was even ahead of the phenomenal #ALDUBMoreThanWords and #IHeartPastillas – both hashtags from the Philippines as well.

Based on Reach, Rappler’s data analytics app, #LabanPilipinas and #FIBAAsia2015 garnered a combined 170.8 million impressions during the match between Gilas Pilipinas and Palestine. Impressions are the estimated number of people who have seen the hashtags in their Twitter feeds.

In a span of two hours, these two hashtags generated over 7,500 tweets (excluding retweets) from more than 4,100 Twitter users worldwide.

Below is the map of the whole community tweeting with hashtags #LabanPilipinas and #FIBAAsia2015.

Despite Gilas’ first loss in the FIBA Asia tournament, netizens tweeted messages of support for the team. 


Gilas Pilipinas will face Hong Kong on Thursday, September 24, at 9:30 am.  Rappler.com

 

 

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