On Facebook, the most talked about TV series in 2014 was HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ On Twitter, it was ‘AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead.’ ‘The Walking Dead’ came in second place on Nielsen’s Twitter TV Ratings chart in 2013, but with ‘Breaking Bad’ (another AMC show) out of the picture, it took first place this time around with the greatest average audience (4,934,000) and average number of tweets (576,000).
Between ‘The Bachelor’ (2nd), ‘Scandal’ (7th), ‘The Bachelorette’ (9th), and ‘Dancing With the Stars’ (10th), ABC had the greatest number of series in the year’s Top 10. With sister network ABC Family included (‘Pretty Little Liars, 3rd), Disney/ABC Television Group had a great social TV year on Twitter.
According to Nielsen, the most-tweeted TV series minute of 2014 belonged to “The Voice (NBC), which garnered 310K Tweets at 8:59 p.m. EST on May 13, 2014.”
Note: Nielsen broke out ‘Top 10 Series,’ ‘Top 10 Specials,’ and ‘Top 10 Sports Events.’ Below, the ‘Top 10 Series:’
