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665K Tweets for BGT Final Saturday’s Britain’s Got Talent final saw an impressive 665,119 Tweets during its live broadcast, making it the 2nd most tweeted show of 2014 (behind The Brit Awards). Over 180,000 individuals joined the conversation on Twitter, helping the show secure a huge 97.4% share of TV Tweets between 7pm and 9.30pm - 1.2% up on last year’s final. Twitter favourites Bars and Melody were the most talked about act, mentioned in 225,000 Tweets across the evening, whilst eventual winners Collabro were mentioned in 41,000 Tweets. The show’s 665K Tweets easily sat at the top of this series, but didn’t surpass last year’s 820,000-Tweet final, which included 168,000 posts about the infamous #egggate moment.

Hollyoaks is the Big Winner at The British Soap Awards Sunday night saw The British Soap Awards 2014 on ITV1 generating 112,915 Tweets, easily securing the top spot on the leaderboard. The top peak of 4,062 TPM came as Hollyoaks was announced as the winner of Best Soap, with the second highest peak of 2,096 TPM coming as Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac won the award for Sexiest Male. The soap saw a total of 38,500 mentions during the transmission, while Danny Mac saw over 7,100 mentions. #BritishSoapAwards and #SoapAwards both trended throughout the in evening in the UK.

100K Tweets for the TV BAFTAs Last night’s TV BAFTAs on BBC One attracted a flurry of conversation on Twitter, collecting 107,669 Tweets. The first big peak of the evening came when Channel 4 favourite Gogglebox won the Reality and Constructed TV award, prompting a steep peak of 1,327 Tweets per minute. The largest reaction of the evening went to Breaking Bad’s International Award win, which reached a peak of 1,668 TPM as Aaron Paul accepted the award. The hashtag #Bafta2014 trended both in the UK and worldwide, while a number of other trends including #CillaBlack, ‘Ant & Dec’, ‘Long Lost Family’ and ‘A League of Their Own’ were spotted throughout the evening.

Made in Chelsea Helps Nando’s Trend on Twitter The on-screen action during last week’s episode of Made in Chelsea helped create an unexpected opportunity for some second screen buzz around the fast food restaurant, Nando’s. When one of the cast declared they hadn’t heard of the restaurant, a Tweet from the official @MadeinChelsea account featuring the hashtag #NeverHeardofNandos, kicked off a rush of conversation on Twitter. The official @NandosUK account tweeted in reply to this and in turn bagged the second most retweeted post of the episode, with 2,615 retweets during our tracking and over 4,500 since. #NeverHeardofNandos went on to trend in the UK, with the restaurant being mentioned in over 10,000 of the show’s 108,000 Tweets.

Eurovision 2014 Sparks 5.3 Million Tweets This weekend’s Eurovision final sparked huge Twitter chatter across Europe, collecting a massive 5.3 million Tweets throughout the evening. Tweets peaked at 47,136 TPM as Conchita Wurst won the contest for Austria, with Conchita's performance earlier in the evening creating the second highest peak in conversation (42,660 TPM). As Eurovision is an event watched across a number of different countries, we tracked the worldwide conversation around the show, which meant that it did not feature in our Saturday leaderboard along with other UK broadcasts. You can read more about Eurovision’s big night on Twitter over on the Twitter UK blog.

Britain's Got Talent Tops Saturday's Twitter Chatter Britain’s Got Talent returned to our screens on Saturday with a total of 236,994 Tweets, making it the day's top tweeted TV. Although delayed by the FA Cup Semi Final, BGT saw over 119K unique users tweeting, hitting a peak of 5,733 TPM when the Golden Buzzer was pressed by Amanda at the end of the show. The episode also saw three Worldwide trending hashtags (#bgt2014, #britainsgottalent, #collabro) while many terms and contestants from the show trended in the UK throughout the night. At one point nine of the ten top UK trends referred to the show.

With over three months of the year already past, we’ve taken a look into which shows have already set the benchmark in terms of Twitter conversation for the year. While nothing has come close to the 4 Million Tweets generated by this year's BRIT Awards, there are some stand out shows that have been getting a fair amount of Twitter chatter... Reality Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother takes the top spot for most tweeted Reality Show. This year's final saw 497,755 Tweets generated, making it the second most tweeted about show of the year so far, while it's Launch Show (476,793 Tweets) and Live Eviction on 26th January (380,496 Tweets) take 3rd and 4th position respectively.

Drama There should be no surprise to learn that BBC’s Sherlock takes the crown for the most tweeted about Drama of the year so far with all three episodes from the latest series taking the top spots. The final episode, His Last Vow, generated 377,182 Tweets, hitting a peak of 10,592 TPM as the series came to a close. Generating just under one million Tweets in total, back in January we took a closer look at the series to see exactly how the show played out on Twitter.

Film The most tweeted about film so far this year is ITV’s showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 that aired on New Year’s Day. Generating 61,272 Tweets, the film hit its peak moment of 1,582 TPM in the opening minutes and has narrowly missed out on being in the top 10 most tweeted about ITV transmissions of the year so far.

Documentary Channel 4 dominate the most tweeted about documentaries of 2014 so far, taking all of the top 10 positions. The number one spot is currently held by Live From Space – Lap of the Planet which generated 57,341 Tweets, hitting a peak of 1,347 TPM in the show's opening minutes.

Chat Show ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show takes the top spot for the most tweeted about Chat Show of 2014 so far. Airing 22nd February, guests included McBusted, Jack Whitehall and Winter Olympic medal winners Lizzy Yarnold and Jenny Jones. The show peaked at 2,240 TPM during McBusted’s performance. The Jonathan Ross Show currently holds three of the top ten spaces, while BBC’s rival chat show, The Graham Norton Show, have five of the ten. Joining the Chat Show Kings in the top 10 is Channel 4’s The Last Leg, airing 7th March the episode generated 9,607 Tweets (partly thanks to their hashtag #YellowThing) and Alan Carr's Chatty Man which aired 28th March with 10,241 Tweets.

Entertainment The most tweeted about Entertainment programme of the year so far is the opening episode of ITV’s Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Generating 44,201 Tweets, the show peaked at 1,083 TPM as Little Ant and Dec made their first appearance of the series. The show also currently holds the top four spots for Entertainment programmes.

Sitcom The highest tweeted Sitcom episode of the year so far may come as a surprise as a repeat episode of Sky 1’s Modern Family firmly holds the top spot. Airing at 5.30pm on 21st January and hitting a peak of 11,826 TPM, the show generated 48,073 Tweets over 47K of which were retweets of a single Tweet sent by Niall Horan of One Direction. The second highest tweeted sitcom is ITV’s Benidorm which generated 24,202 Tweets with the first episode of its new series.

Soap The highest tweeted about Soap episode of the year so far belongs to ITV’s Coronation Street and the sad death of Hayley Cropper. 126,725 Tweets were sent during the 8.30pm episode on 20th January with a peak of 8,166 TPM as Hayley took her final breath. The transmission averaged at 2,313 TPM, easily the highest average for a Soap in the year so far.

Chelsea's victory in the Champions League last night drove the highest Tweet volumes we have seen for a match involving a British team in the competition this season. Over 2.1 million Tweets and 721K unique users saw Mourinho's side progress to the semi-final, with a huge peak of 70,680 TPM reacting to the final whistle.

No prizes for guessing who was the most talked about player last night, featuring in almost 250K Tweets.

Superb @dembabafoot. #CFC pic.twitter.com/bGzVu27gDy

— Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) April 8, 2014

Previously this season, we've seen 1.6 million Tweets sent around Manchester United's fighting draw against Bayern Munich, while Barcelona's defeat of Manchester City attracted 1.17 million Tweets, including a 41K TPM peak in reaction to Messi's goal.

#KTBFFH, the hashtag adopted by Chelsea fans online from the song Keep The Blue Flag Flying High, was used in over 30K Tweets. The hashtag promoted by PSG - #ParisChampionsDream – unfortunately fared less well, as we counted 3,200 uses.

#CHEPSG pic.twitter.com/H8lM6DJ14R

— PSG Officiel (@PSG_inside) April 8, 2014

Monday’s social TV saw a huge boost last night with the return of two very different cult series. Both new series have created lots of chatter on Twitter in anticipation of their return, and as expected, they went straight to the top of our social TV leaderboard. The ever popular reality series Made in Chelsea premiered its 7th series on E4 last night, causing a huge reaction from fans on Twitter and trending in the UK. The episode collected an impressive 163,000 Tweets, 73% of those posted by females (almost matching the average seen in the last series of the show). Trending on Twitter for much of the day leading up to the premiere episode, Tweets peaked as the show began at a massive 6,162 TPM with over 16,000 Tweets posted in the first 3 minutes of the show alone. Over 88,000 individuals joined the conversation on Twitter helping to make it the day’s top Tweeted programme, and with the majority of the last series sitting at number one in our leaderboard, we’ll be expecting to see it at the top of Monday's social TV throughout the rest of the 7th series.

The long awaited fourth series of Game of Thrones finally arrived to Sky Atlantic yesterday, with both a global screening at 2.00am UK time and an evening broadcast exclusive to UK viewers at 9.00pm last night. The UK only broadcast created huge buzz on Twitter, with viewers posting 41,000 Tweets about the show and making it the day’s second most Tweeted TV. A flurry of Tweets greeted the beginning of the episode prompting a peak of 1,167 TPM with a smaller peak as the show ended. Cast member Maisie Williams was mentioned in over 3,400 Tweets during the show by viewers using her @Maisie_Williams Twitter handle.

Sri Lanka defeated India by six wickets in the final of the T20 World Cup yesterday to end a run of big tournament disappointment and say goodbye to two of their veteran performers in T20s, Kumar Sangakarra and Mahela Jayawardene. We’ve been following the general buzz of conversation around the tournament since it began on 16th March until midnight last night, and tracked both semi-finals and the final at match-level detail. Over 411K Tweets were sent around the final held on Sunday night in Mirpur, Dhaka, including a peak of 6,095 TPM as Kusal Perera hit the winning runs for Sri Lanka. Despite Sri Lanka’s success the two most talked about players were Indians: Virat Kohli was mentioned in over 50K Tweets for his innings of 77, while Yuvraj Singh also drove conversation as his slow score of 11 from 21 balls handed the initiative to Sri Lanka.

Mentions of Virat Kohli:

In our round the clock tracking of the hashtag #WT20 used for both the men's and women's World Cup, the most popular Tweet was this from cricket writer Freddie Wilde after India defeated South Africa in the second semi-final.

India in ICC Semi-Finals since 2000: W W W W W W W South Africa in ICC Semi-Finals since 2000: L L L L L L L #IndvSA #WT20

— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 4, 2014

200K Tweets were sent around the match:

In total the hashtag #WT20 was used 892,149 times across 22 days. The three biggest peaks in Tweets per hour all included India: 21st March – 2-3pm BST - 16,129 Tweets recorded as India defeat Pakistan. 4th April – 5-6pm BST - 19,249 Tweets as India defeat South Africa in the semi-final. 6th April – 5-6pm BST – 24,215 Tweets as Sri Lanka defeat India to win the T20 World Cup. The biggest peak not involving India came between 12 and 1pm BST on 23rd March as Pakistan defeated Australia and 14,289 Tweets were sent. As well as following the use of #WT20 In our tournament-wide tracking we also tracked the official handles of all competing nations to see who had the strongest Twitter game. England came out on top, although that includes time after they crashed out of the tournament at the Super 10 group stage. England - 30,650 Tweets India - 28,997 Tweets South Africa - 25,684 Tweets The use of one hashtag for the two tournaments – like with #Sochi2014 – has inspired users to join the conversation and follow the tournament throughout its stages, while providing a constant source of news, images and highlights for fans. @ICC has also made the most of the #TwitterMirror, posting images using the hashtag to provide direct access to images of some of the biggest stars and boost the profile of the tournament online.

.@MahelaJay & @KumarSanga2 sign off from T20Is in style helping Sri Lanka win the #wt20 2014 #TwitterMirror pic.twitter.com/jpUnps2zFE

— ICC (@ICC) April 6, 2014

Europe Debate Tops Tweets for BBC Two The second debate about Britain’s membership of the European Union was broadcast live on BBC Two on Wednesday, attracting 76,976 Tweets, the channel's highest Tweet total of 2014. Many different hashtags appeared around the contest between Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg: the BBC’s official hashtag #EuropeDebate was used 53,771 times, while #nickvnigel appeared in 12,987 Tweets and #teamnigel in 3,893 Tweets. Polls after the debate suggested Farage came out on top again and the Twitter stats would back that up, with @nigel_farage’s handle used in 4,631 posts, to 2,922 mentions for @nick_clegg. A peak of 1,496 TPM was recorded at 19.58pm as viewers reacted to the closing speeches.

A Million Tweets for The Voice 2014 BBC One’s The Voice finished on Saturday with an impressive 1 million Tweets across the series. The final two hour episode saw 140,000 Tweets from over 61,000 individuals – a total topped only by the Live Quarter Finals (the longest episode of the series), which saw 158,000 Tweets. The series winner, Jermain Jackman was by far the most talked about contestant of the evening, mentioned in over 42,000 Tweets. Following Jermain, fellow finalist Christina Marie saw over 12,000 mentions, while Sally Barker was talked about in 5,700 Tweets. Engagement peaked at 4,817 TPM as the winner was announced, the second highest TPM of the series.

The winner @JermainJackman pic.twitter.com/B1JlEqOito

— will.i.am (@iamwill) April 5, 2014

Over 100K Tweets for Towie Finale The 11th series of The Only Way is Essex came to a close on Wednesday with a flurry of chatter on Twitter, reaching a total of 110,000 Tweets. The on screen action sparked a number of peaks in conversation, finally hitting 4,277 TPM as the episode finished. Conversation continued on Twitter with a third of the episode’s Tweets being posted in the 30 minutes immediately after the show had finished. Sam Faiers was the most talked about cast member, with over 20,000 mentions prompted by her exit from the series, while returning cast member Lydia Bright was talked about in almost 10,000 Tweets. The series generated over 1 million Tweets across its 12 episodes, over 350,000 Tweets more than the last series of the popular reality show.

The Voice Steals Saturday's Social TV BBC One’s The Voice continues to dominate the weekend’s social TV, sitting at the top of our Saturday leaderboard for the last four weeks. This weekend’s live semi-final saw the show drive 107,000 Tweets from over 50,000 unique Twitter users. The programme took a 76% share of TV related Tweets during its air time, while 66% of its Tweets were from females. The peak of the evening came as Will.I.am became slightly over enthusiastic with his comments about Lee Glasson's performance, prompting a rush of 1,831 TPM.

Over 300K Tweets for Sport Relief 2014 The BBC’s Sport Relief 2014 generated 319,000 Tweets from over 190,000 individuals on Friday evening. The 6 hour event, which included broadcasts on BBC One and BBC Two, saw three main peaks in engagement on Twitter. The first came during Bob’s story, reaching 2,960 TPM, followed by David Beckham's appearance in a special Only Fools and Horses sketch, generating a peak of 3,178 TPM. The largest peak in Twitter engagement of the evening was triggered by a Tweet from One Direction’s Liam Payne, which helped the show reach 6,270 TPM and went on to collect over 22,000 retweets during our monitoring.

well done to @LittleMixOffic on @sportrelief. Support a great cause guysssss http://t.co/m5g5jsk8bU

— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) March 21, 2014

Brand Boosts Match of the Day Tweets A guest pundit appearance from Russell Brand on Saturday helped Match of the Day take the second spot on our leaderboard, while also recording the third highest volume we have on record for the show, of 74,235 Tweets. The show’s use of a live Twitter vote has generated large peaks in engagement throughout the season and this week’s peak of 5,066 TPM is the second highest we have ever seen, with all the current records for Tweet volumes still held by the opening episode of this season in August 2013, when a spike of 6,566 TPM greeted the return of the familiar theme tune. Russell Brand – a lifelong West Ham United fan – was mentioned in 20,148 Tweets during the show’s capture window. Undercover Doctor Tops Tuesday's Tweets Dr Christian Jessen’s show, Undercover Doctor: Cure Me I’m Gay, proved to be a big hit on Tuesday, sitting at the top of our leaderboard and also trending worldwide. 30,719 Tweets were sent about the programme in total, including a peak of 620 TPM at the show’s conclusion as Dr Christian confirmed he remained “100% gay”. Channel Four continues to dominate our top Documentary shows for 2014 so far, taking eight of the top ten of total programmes of that genre. Undercover Doctor falls just outside of that list but it is the fourth most tweeted Documentary of the month, behind three other Channel Four broadcasts.

Still 100% gay and proud of it #UndercoverDoctor #curemeimgay

— Dr Christian Jessen (@DoctorChristian) March 18, 2014

This weekend saw the final round of fixtures in the 2014 Six Nations, where the biggest story was Brian O’Driscoll ending his fifteen year international career with title victory for Ireland. The Irish overturned a 13-12 deficit at half-time to beat France 22-20, and thus pip England to the top of the table on points difference.

The perfect ending. #ThankYouBrian @BrianODriscoll pic.twitter.com/mLOvaq0w3J

— adidas (@adidas) March 15, 2014

The hashtags #ThankYouBrian and #BOD were used in a combined total of 31k Tweets around the match. The three biggest peaks in TPM during France v Ireland – which stands as by far the most tweeted fixture of the tournament – are all pushed to such heights by Tweets from One Direction's Niall Horan, and subsequent interactions.

The other most tweeted fixtures were: Ireland v Wales - 10,199 peak TPM - 191,380 total volume - 8th February England v Wales - 10,071 peak TPM - 164,901 total volume - 9th March 2014 has already proved itself to be the year of the selfie and the Six Nations was no different: Cian Healy posted this picture from Ireland’s dressing room after the match on Saturday, while Dylan Hartley’s post celebrating England’s triple crown after victory over Wales was another of the most popular Tweets from during the tournament.

Enough is enough pic.twitter.com/K4v1ARtPar

— Cian Healy (@ProperChurch) March 15, 2014

Thank you Twickenham #selfie 🌹 pic.twitter.com/RF8Pdot6E9

— Dylan Hartley (@DylanHartley) March 9, 2014

After victory over Italy earlier in the day, England fans were hoping that Ireland would slip up and they could claim a title that looked unlikely after defeat in the opening fixture against France. As it is, Stuart Lancaster can take heart from improved performances ahead of next year’s World Cup. A peak of 1,167 TPM reacted to Mike Brown's second try on England's way to 52 points.

Mike Brown was the most talked about player, mentioned in 6,399 Tweets during the game’s capture window.

In the day’s other game, Wales completed a miserable Six Nations for Scotland with a 51-3 mauling, their biggest ever margin of victory in the competition. A red card for a late shoulder charge by Scotland’s Stuart Hogg provoked the spike of 1,057 TPM after 12 minutes had been played.

Over 100K Tweets for Educating Joey Essex Educating Joey Essex launched on ITV2 last night creating a huge response on Twitter, with a total of 116,586 Tweets. Airing immediately before his old show, The Only Way is Essex, Joey’s new programme collected Tweets from over 67,000 individual Twitter users, making it Sunday’s most tweeted TV. Tweets peaked at just over 3,300 TPM at 9.15pm with a secondary rush of 2,737 TPM, both being generated during the show’s ad breaks.

High Twitter Chatter for BBC Three BBC Three has driven high levels of Twitter chatter this week despite the latest news regarding the channel. Monday saw the channel take the top spot with EDL Girls: Don’t Call Me Racist generating 19,815 Tweets, followed by Impractical Jokers down in 8th place with 3,918 Tweets. Wednesday saw the final episode of Ja’mie take the number two spot with 17,588 Tweets (the highest total since its 23,000-Tweet series opener) and 8th spot belonged to the new series of Free Speech with 5,195 Tweets. This was the second highest Tweet volume Free Speech has generated, following 9,953 Tweets for its 'Are We Getting More Racist?' debate, aired on June 12th last year.

With the final episode of the series being aired last night, Inside No 9 has created an entirely new genre of its own with four of the six episodes producing near identical Tweet patterns. Normally this wouldn’t be surprising for a TV show, most follow ‘unwritten rules’ in terms of Twitter chatter depending on which genre they belong to. For example, dramas see peaks at the beginning and end of the transmission while reality shows see constant chatter throughout. We usually expect to see the same style of graph produced again and again, but this is where Inside No 9 differs. Thinking that as the show is made by BBC Comedy it must fit in the genre is misleading. While there are laughs there’s also a horror aspect, something that isn’t particularly common on UK television. The mix of the two genres is what sees the unique graphs produced by Inside No 9.

While there is a slight peak in Tweets as the show begins, the main conversation comes immediately as the credits begin to roll. The four episodes that have produced similar graphs each had a rather spectacular twist moments beforehand, causing viewers to turn to their second screen to express their shock and share theories (we've previously looked into why Inside No 9 isn't a typical comedy). The interaction from @ReeceShearsmith and the @BBCComedy account also helped to maintain chatter in the half hour after transmission.

With new and returning shows constantly appearing on our screens, we've gathered together a selection of shows that will drive Twitter chatter in the coming weeks. From reality to drama, there's something for everyone and below are just a few shows that you might see in our leaderboards... Made In Chelsea - 7th April E4 There’s no question as to whether the new series of E4’s Made In Chelsea will make an impact on Twitter. The show's last series saw an average of 108,719 Tweets per episode, with the highest generated being 217,370 Tweets in the opening episode. This total was the 3rd largest we have on record for the show, the biggest being 304,431 Tweets on 8th April last year followed by 230,461 Tweets on 15th October ’12. We have 4,594,958 Tweets on record for the show as a whole, making it the 8th most tweeted about programme that we track.

The Widower - 17th March ITV1 Always generating high numbers, ITV Drama have another chilling series in store for us with The Widower. Starring Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith and based on true events, the three-part drama hits our screens on 17th March. The most recent drama from ITV has of course been Mr. Selfridge, which so far has an average of 3,119 Tweets an episode. A previous ITV drama starring Sheridan Smith is Mrs. Biggs, which saw its final episode generate an impressive 16,090 Tweets. With these sort of numbers coming from previous ITV dramas, will The Widower be able to live up to its predecessors?

W1A - 19 March BBC Two The follow up to BBC’s Olympic Comedy Twenty Twelve, W1A sees Hugh Bonneville once again take up the role of Ian Fletcher. With the final three episodes of Twenty Twelve generating impressive totals for 30 minute episodes, W1A has a lot to live up to. The highest amount came from the final episode which saw 3,086 Tweets, peaking at 198 TPM as the series came to a close. The episode made it into our top ten as 2,601 Tweets mentioned the hashtag #TwentyTwelve.

Crazy Beaches - 15th March ITV2 ITV2’s interactive show, Crazy Beaches, returns to our screens on Saturday. The show is one of the first to encourage viewers to vote live via Twitter on the outcome of the different scenarios featured. First airing back in September, the opening episode generated 6,142 Tweets with over 1,000 Tweets dedicated to the hashtags used to vote in the show.

Gogglebox Returns to C4 with Top Tweets Friday night saw the return of Channel 4’s Gogglebox, which generated its highest recorded total volume of 46,549 Tweets, almost double its previous Tweet high. The show reached a peak of 1,627 Tweets per minute and averaged at 610 TPM, again beating previous records set by the programme. Fan favourites Leon and June saw themselves mentioned in over 3,600 Tweets, the highest of any of the households, and were mentioned in the top three retweeted Tweets.