‘Pretty Little Liars,’ ‘Scream’ Scare Up Tweets

By R. Thomas Umstead
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Episodes from Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars and MTV’s Scream generated the most tweets of any television show yesterday, according to Nielsen.

Liars garnered 65,000 tweets from 19,000 unique Twitter authors, while 6,000 Twitter users posted 34,000 tweets about Scream Tuesday night, according to Nielsen’s daily Twitter TV ratings.

NBC’s America’s Got Talent, OWN’s The Have and the Have Nots and POP’s iMPACT Wrestling rounded out the top five most tweeted shows on Tuesday.

MLB Network's Cincinnati Reds/Chicago Cubs baseball telecast was the most tweeted live sports event for the day, according to Nielsen

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.