--- description: In a clever video nod to the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, the social media management company HootSuite reimagines tech giants like Facebook and Twitter as powerful players in the Seven Kingdoms title: Game of Thrones Gets Recast as a Battle for the Internet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Advertising](/tag/advertising/) ## Advertising Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Game of Thrones Gets Recast as a Battle for the Internet by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 5, 2014 1:28 PM CUT by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 5, 2014 1:28 PM CUT Sometimes it feels like Silicon Valley has all the [palace intrigue](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/19/whatsapp-facebook%5Fn%5F4819003.html "undefined"), [dastardly betrayals](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-love-and-twitter.html "undefined") and [malicious rumors](http://time.com/6015/secret-app/ "undefined") of a good _Game of Thrones_ episode. The social media management company HootSuite has now brought that vision to life with Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants reimagined as powerful players in the Seven Kingdoms. The computer-generated video is an homage to the opening theme of the hit HBO series, with the various social networks taking on the roles of King’s Landing, Winterfell and other important _GoT_ locales. Facebook raises towers for its recent annexations Instagram and WhatsApp, while blue birds fly toward Twitter’s fortress. The more distant kingdom of Snapchat is appropriately underdeveloped compared to its more established neighbors. The point of the ad, besides celebrating _Game of Thrones_’ return on Sunday, is to emphasize HootSuite’s usefulness as tool to manage multiple social media accounts at once. The company, which boasts nearly eight million users, secured $165 million in venture funding last summer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/50255/game-of-thrones-gets-recast-as-a-battle-for-the-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/50255/game-of-thrones-gets-recast-as-a-battle-for-the-internet/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Gets Recast as a Battle for the Internet","datePublished":"2014-04-05T13:28:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:54.278Z","description":"In a clever video nod to the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, the social media management company HootSuite reimagines tech giants like Facebook and Twitter as powerful players in the Seven Kingdoms","url":"https://time.com/50255/game-of-thrones-gets-recast-as-a-battle-for-the-internet/","keywords":["Advertising","Tech","Social Media","game of thrones","snapchat","facebook","twitter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/advertising/","name":"Advertising"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/50255/game-of-thrones-gets-recast-as-a-battle-for-the-internet/","name":"Game of Thrones Gets Recast as a Battle for the Internet"}}]}] ```