‘The Hunger Games’ most popular movie on social media in 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is reportedly the most popular holiday movie on Facebook and Twitter with 12.8 million fans, but it is still behind last year’s winner Twilight having 37.4 million fans on the social media, according to ANI.

An analysis of holiday movies’ social media popularity by ListenFirst has found that Catching Fire’s popularity still pales in comparison to Twilight’s fans when the movie’s Breaking Dawn Part 2 was in theatres.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Catching Fire managed to beat Breaking Dawn Part 2’s opening, showing that social media isn’t everything. Meanwhile, Universal’s The Best Man Holiday is fairing best among nonfranchise movies this holiday season, with nearly 1.6 million accounts following it across Facebook and Twitter, last year the spot was won by Wreck-it-Ralph which had 1..3 million fans.

The report said that Facebook continued to be the place where holiday films found their social fan base, with more than 95 percent of fans on Facebook, and 4.7 percent on Twitter.

According to an old data of ListenFirst, as of No- vember 14, ‘Catching Fire’ was also most popular, with the films taking the second, third and fourth most popular spots (in order): Thor: The Dark World (8.5 million fans), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (3.35 million fans) and Anchorman: The Legend Continues (1.2 million), reports the Hollywood reporter.