Most-tweeted moments of the State of the Union (infographic)
Twitter has put together an infographic analyzing the tweets from last night’s State of the Union debate. It counted 766,681 tweets that referenced the State of the Union or one of its hashtags, as well as 548 tweets from members of Congress. The top moment was President Obama’s joke, “I guess it was worth crying over spilled milk,” which generated 14,131 tweets-per-minute.
Steve Martin on Twitter’s similarity to television
While riding in a taxi cab recently, a clip started playing from an episode of NBC’s Rock Center where host Brian Williams gets into a detailed conversation with his guest Steve Martin, on his love of Twitter. If you’re a regular Lost Remote reader, you no doubt understand the fascinating love affair Twitter and TV had in 2011. Most of the time we discuss how many people were tweeting about a program and how many times, or how the show creatively used Twitter to offer fans a deeper engagement with the show….
Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, deletes a controversial tweet
The man who bought MySpace just joined Twitter, attracting 55,000 followers and counting. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is a verified account at @rupertmurdoch, and he’s already deleted a tweet.
“Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!” he tweeted, which disappeared a short time later. He later tweeted, “I’m getting killed for fooling around here and friends frightened what I may really say!”
Twitter for name supers on NBC’s Rose Parade
Twitter appears on TV in many ways, and seeing Twitter handles on-air is nothing new. But how about Twitter account names as the name supers themselves? Shaun Robinson and Al Roker anchored NBC’s coverage of the Rose Parade today, and here’s how their names appeared:
Kelly Oxford and the future of Twitter-savvy TV writers
Kelly Oxford is the latest personality known for her Twitter feed (@kellyoxford) and blog to get a TV deal. NBC will pick up her “single-camera ensemble comedy,” written by Oxford, that will be about a divorcing couple and an overbearing sister.
Since CBS cancelled “$#*! My Dad Says,” there’s been skepticism on the possibility of giving someone who has attracted a large Twitter following a chance to write for TV.
Fox News ties Twitter to real-time debate feedback
During Thursday night’s GOP debate, FoxNews.com tracked real-time Twitter feedback by using two hashtags, #answer and #dodge. When viewers felt a candidate was answering the question, they tweeted #answer along with the candidate’s name. And when a candidate was avoiding it, #dodge. The results were compiled in real-time on FoxNews.com, powered by Mass Relevance:
Twitter becomes more like media company with redesign
In a surprise announcement today, Twitter started rolling out a brand new experience for its website, mobile apps and Tweetdeck, too. Generally speaking, it shifts Twitter ever closer to becoming a media company, rather than just a communications platform.
While the experience is slowing rolling out for everyone, downloading a new mobile app should trigger the roll-over on your account on the web. (This took a couple attempts, and I had to load Twitter.com on a new browser for it to kick in.) Here’s @LostRemote with our jazzy background image:
VH1 tests live stream to gear up fans for ‘Basketball Wives’
We wrote about the popularity of Vh1′s Basketball Wives and as season four gears up, the network is trying to innovate by leveraging the social web with a behind-the-scenes live stream to get fans ready for the new season. While live streaming content and exclusive chats is a common practice for the networks now, VH1 is live-streaming a promo shoot with the goal to create a “tweet-to-live video loop.” And if all goes well, VH1 may offer more live glimpses into the production of the show.
When Twitter impacts TV ratings the most [study]
First on Lost Remote: Nielsen released an early glimpse today into its research project measuring Twitter’s impact on TV ratings. As we reported back in October, Nielsen’s first study — which did not include Twitter data — revealed that a 9% increase in buzz volume (blogs, boards and public Facebook posts) corresponded to a 1% increase in ratings among the 18-49 year-old demo. But in recent weeks, Twitter has provided Nielsen with loads of data to measure its impact on ratings.
MTV tops Twitter’s tweets-per-second in 2011
As part of its year-in-review, Twitter released its top tweets-per-second for 2011. Surprisingly perhaps, the World Cup, Steve Jobs, the Japan Tsunami and the East Coast earthquake didn’t top the chart.
Instead, the MTV VMAs took home the honor of the most simultaneously-tweeted moment of the year with 8,868 tweets sent in a single minute….
Twitter announces top tweets for 2011
Twitter has announced its top tweets for 2011 — that’s top tweets as judged by Twitter, not in terms of a metric like retweets or impressions — and in a post on ABCNews.com yesterday, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered some insight into how some of the tweets were chosen.
For instance, he had this to say about the massive volley of Tweets during and after the Japanese earthquake in March:
Sony Bravia TV sets add Twitter ticker, Facebook app
Like an increasing number of connected TV sets, Sony’s Bravia sets are adding built-in Facebook and Twitter integration, along with the addition of YouTube HD.
The Twitter ticker scrolls tweets from your account along the bottom of the screen…
Gilbert Gottfried returns to TV after Twitter faux pas
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried received a huge amount of negative attention and lost a gig voicing the Aflac duck in their TV commercials after he made jokes on Twitter about Japan’s tsunami, shortly after the tragedy occurred. After about eight months out of the spotlight, Gottfried will be returning to television on an episode of Law & Order SVU, the New York Post reports.
Mississippi State paints a big Twitter hashtag in end zone
Twitter hashags on TV are all the rage, and one college is going all-out to ensure its hashtag will get some airtime this weekend. Mississippi State has painted a huge “#HAILSTATE” in the end zone for the “Egg Bowl” on Saturday against Ole Miss.
The idea sprang out of a weekly marketing meeting, said athletic director Scott Stricklin.
Twitter says TV ratings connection is becoming clearer
Twitter’s Chloe Sladden (@chloes) spoke at yesterday’s Social TV Summit, and one of the highlights is her discussion around social media’s impact on TV ratings — one of the most popular topics at the event.
Just as Facebook is working with Nielsen, Sladden said Twitter recently shared a bunch of data with the ratings company. She shared an early glimpse into the results…
Tweets magnify Weather.com’s engagement
The Weather Channel’s Weather.com rolled out an extensive integration with Twitter over the summer, powered by Trendrr, that displays weather-related tweets at the local market level in real time. In a presentation today at the Social TV Summit, Trendrr CEO Mark Ghuneim said it’s been big success, boosting engagement across Weather.com pages with social integration.
Watch Facebook, Twitter and YouTube at the Social TV Summit
The second Social TV Summit, organized by Andy Batkin, kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday) in NYC. Lost Remote (myself) will be there covering the event, and we will be streaming the live conference here on LostRemote.com like we did for the sold-out event this past summer in LA (this one’s also sold out).
Sundance Channel premieres show on Twitter
AMC Networks’ Sundance Channel has unleashed the premier episode of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys via TwitVid on their Twitter account. The show’s season two, which “celebrates the special relationship between straight women and gay men,” will premier on Friday night 11/18 at 9pm.
NBC’s Grim also offered the first episode via Twitter but required that you follow the show so they could DM you a code. With this TwitVid integration…
