Nielsen to roll out Twitter ratings for TV shows on Monday

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Oct 072013
 

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Television networks have been tapping Twitter hashtags for a couple of years to drum up more buzz for their programs. However, new Nielsen data shows that programs with the greatest Twitter activity does not always correlate to programs with the highest ratings, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That is one of the takeaways from data Nielsen will begin publishing on Monday, ranking shows with the greatest traction on the microblogging social network. The goal of the “Nielsen Twitter TV Ranking,” which the companies announced last December, will be to measure the unique audience tweeting about individual programs.

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