"This night's Game of Thrones episode is the most tweeted in television history with nearly 8 million tweets," says Twitter, relaying a Variety article on the subject. The episode has therefore collected more tweets than any other television show in history, says the magazine. Among these posts, there are many criticisms about the realization of the episode. Some viewers have indeed found that "The Battle of Winterfell" lacked a little readability and clarity.
Game of Thrones season 8: the episode beats a record of tweets and dethrones episode 1
In the year 2019, Game of Thrones has already been the subject of 52 million tweets, which is huge. Among the most talked about characters on Twitter, we find of course Arya, the King of the Night, Bran, Jon Snow and Cersei. As a reminder, episode 3 of Game of Thrones season 8 already beat the record of the biggest battle scene in the history of TV.
Episode 3 thus largely destroys the first episode of this season 8. In the 24 hours after its broadcast on April 14, 2019, it had generated more than 5 million tweets. Will the series beat its new record in the coming weeks? For the record, episode 4 will be broadcast by HBO on May 19 and will last up to 78 minutes, 11 minutes more than the previous episode.
This is not the first time that the series inspired by the work of George R. R. Martin unleashes the passions on Twitter. In 2017, Game of Thrones was voted the most tweeted series of the social network, just ahead of Stranger Things and far ahead of The Walking Dead.
We're breaking records over here!— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 29, 2019
Last night's episode of @GameOfThrones was the most Tweeted about episode of scripted television EVER with nearly 8 MILLION Tweets. 🐉📺 https://t.co/D5IVk8R9LX
