The Wiz Live! drove around 1,373,814 tweets, according to Amobee Brand Intelligence. By monitoring over 600,000 websites across platforms, they found that sentiment ranged from neutral to positive. There were 838,134 tweets around the hashtag #TheWiz, 400,923 tweet
The Wiz Live! performed better than last year’s live show, Peter Pan. Last year, there were 360,000 tweets around #PeterPanLive during the three hours Peter Pan Live! was airing on December 4, 2014. #TheWiz which was the official musical hashtag this time around generated 142 percent more Tweets during the corresponding time period on December 3, 2015.
There was 102,510 tweets around the cast of The Wiz Live! between 8 p.m. -11 p.m. ET on Dec. 3, with sentiment around those tweets being 29 percent positive, 62 percent neutral, and 9 percent negative. With an unknown actress starring as Dorothy; Ne-Yo, who played the Tin Man generated the most tweets during the 3 hours, with 26,046. Queen Latifah, playing the Wiz, was mentioned in 19,152 tweets, and Mary J. Blige who played a wicked witch drove 11,691 tweets in the same time period. Shanice Williams, the actress playing Dorothy during the broadcast was only mentioned in 5,256 tweets but Twitter sentiment around her was 32 percent positive, 66 percent neutral, and only 2 percent negative.
But there was not enough Toto. There were 45,351 tweets around the pup between 8 p.m. -11 p.m. ET on Dec. 3; as the audience wondered where the dog who appeared during the Kansas opening disappeared to during Oz scenes. Twitter sentiment around Toto was 15 percent positive,