Oscar Snubs Dominate Twitter Conversations

The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag had about 122,000 tweets in two days

oscars+2015 600x300After the Oscar nominees were announced last week, social media was buzzing with the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag and people talking about the Selma snub, among others. Amobee Brand Intelligence crunched the numbers and found that:

The 20 acting nominees were all white men and white woman, and as (David) Oyelowo was the person of color whose non-nomination was the most surprising, there was 57 percent as much “Oscar snub” related consumption around “David Oyelowo” as there was around Selma. Meanwhile,

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