Last night’s Grease Live! drove 1,396,368 tweets, according to Amobee Brand Intelligence. And the audience was into it. Twitter sentiment around the official #GreaseLive hashtag was 34 percent positive, 55 percent neutral, and 11 percent negative, which is around the same sort of tweet volume that December’s The Wiz Live! on NBC. For that special there were 1,373,814 tweets in the same time period.
Tweets Around Grease Live! Cast
Volume of Tweets around Grease Live! cast members between 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET, Jan. 31, 2016.
- Vanessa Hudgens: 90,756 tweets
- Aaron Tveit: 36,522 tweets
- Julianne Hough: 26,406 tweets
- Joe Jonas: 18,108 tweets
- Mario Lopez: 15,570 tweets
- Didi Conn: 11,412 tweets
- Boys II Men: 5,328 tweets
- Jordan Fisher: 5,220 tweets
- Keke Palmer: 3,816 tweets
- Jessie J: 1,620 tweets
But by far, the real star of the evening was Chrissy Teigen‘s live tweeting of the show — without a TV and without ever having seen the original Grease. Teigen needs a social media director gig if everything else doesn’t work out for her:
So she changes everything about herself and they live happily ever after? There is no grand realization that she doesn’t have to? Respect.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 1, 2016
If u really think about it, hand jiving is extremely spastic and disturbing — christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 1, 2016
That was very great. Congrats you talented bastards!!! I can’t imagine all the work that took from every possible end, holy moly.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 1, 2016
How can we wait to watch the Super Bowl with her?