You can seldom sit down in front of the television, phone in one hand and remote in the other without tweeting these days – it’s almost like trying to watch a film without popcorn.
As we now aren’t reliant on just the sets in our living room to watch television on, the inclusion of streaming television on handheld devices, laptops, games consoles and more has led to the great art of TV watching becoming a much more social one.
With a few classic series’ closing the curtain over the past 6 months, Twitter has been a livewire of opinions, one-liners and most annoyingly of all, spoilers. As people have been logging on to tweet their thoughts, the respective reach of the series’ has reached the millions with The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad being the two with the biggest buzz between September 2013 and May 2014.
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From the statistics above, you can see that an astounding 6million users viewed a tweet referring to an episode aired during the final season of Breaking Bad and just over 5million for The Walking Dead. Surprisingly, Pretty Little Liars had a wider reach than Game of Thrones but his could be down to the season still being in the early episodes when this data was compiled.
In fact, the fantasy series may surround the disputes for claims to royalty but there can be no doubt that it’s the king of social media.
During the opening episode of its fourth season, half a million tweets were sent out and this recent one shows how dedicated the fandom is.
