{"id":566,"date":"2016-08-03T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:05:22","slug":"how-pokemon-go-has-taken-over-the-world-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/how-pokemon-go-has-taken-over-the-world-web\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pokemon Go Has Taken Over The World &#038; Web!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">In the week that political resignations, leadership battles and market turmoil dominated news headlines, a certain monster-hunting mobile game was busy making waves online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Pokemon Go&#8217;s mixture of gaming and reality has proved a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>SimilarWeb says players are using Pokemon Go for an average of 43 minutes a day &#8211; that&#8217;s more than Whatsapp, Instagram or Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Since the game makes players walk around to hunt Pokemon, it means an average man playing the game for seven days would burn 1,795 calories &#8211; and a woman would burn 1,503. Converted into a tastier measure, that could be seven small chocolate doughnuts for a man &#8211; or six for a woman.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from SimilarWeb, &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Go&#8221; has already been installed on more Android smartphones in the US than the dating app Tinder, which is itself a runaway hit. As of Friday, the game was on 5.16% of all US Android phones \u2014 versus just over 2% for Tinder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vs-tinder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vs-tinder-595x475.png\" alt=\"vs-tinder\" width=\"595\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vs-tinder-595x475.png 595w, https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vs-tinder-960x767.png 960w, https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vs-tinder.png 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daily active users measures what proportion of the smartphone population uses an app on any given day. And on Friday, just over 3% of US Android owners were using the game daily \u2014 against about 3.5% for Twitter \u2014 with Pok\u00e9mon Go&#8217;s rate rising fast as new users continue to install the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that political resignations, leadership battles and market turmoil dominated news headlines, a certain monster-hunting mobile game was busy making waves online. Pokemon Go&#8217;s mixture of gaming and reality has proved a huge success. 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