Republican Debate Draws More Than 1.1 Million Tweets

Fox Business Network’s Republican Presidential Debate telecast was a big hit on Twitter yesterday, drawing more than 1.1 million tweets last night, according to Nielsen.

The 1.19 million tweets for last night's debate reached a whopping 6 million unique Twitter users, according to Nielsen’s Twitter TV daily ratings, dwarfing the 72,000 tweets and 1.4 million unique Twitter users generated by second place finisher, NBC’ The Voice.

A total number of 13.5 million viewers tuned into the debate, co-sponsored by The Wall Street Journal.

Fox’s Scream Queens, ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary and the CW’s The Flash rounded out the top five most social TV shows of the day, according to Nielsen.

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.