--- description: The most popular awards shows, sporting events and episodes on the social media platform title: Can You Guess the Most Tweeted-About TV Events of the Year? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt426249d5317a6401/6988526a3c1639635745823b/twitter-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Can You Guess the Most Tweeted-About TV Events of the Year? by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2015 3:41 PM CUT  LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: In this photo illustration, The Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced it's initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England. Twitter went public on the NYSE opening at USD 26 per share, valuing the company's worth at an estimated USD 18 billion. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: In this photo illustration, The Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced it's initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England. Twitter went public on the NYSE opening at USD 26 per share, valuing the company's worth at an estimated USD 18 billion. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)Bethany Clarke—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2015 3:41 PM CUT Reading about television on social media can sometimes skew perspective on what’s actually popular—do you have more _Mad Men_ friends or more _How I Met Your Mother_ friends? But [new research from Nielsen](http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2015/tv-season-in-review-biggest-moments-on-twitter.html "undefined") reveals exactly which TV events of the Sept. 2014 to May 2015 season actually captured the most attention on Twitter. The most-tweeted TV event of the season probably comes as no surprise: that honor goes to Super Bowl XLIX, which was the most-tweeted sports event and the most-tweeted event overall, with 25.1 million tweets sent. Yet other top-rankers are a bit more unexpected. The 57th Annual Grammy Awards saw the most Twitter action of any special event (13.4 million tweets), beating out the Oscars and several other awards shows. But Bruce Jenner’s interview with Diane Sawyer was the highest-ranked special that was _not_ an award show, as measured by how many people saw tweets about the event (rather than how many tweets were sent). The two-part _Empire_ finale was the most tweeted-about episode (2.4 million tweets), while _The Walking Dead_ had the most tweeted-about season premiere (1.3 million). But the episode with the largest audience on Twitter was _Saturday Night Live’s_ 40th anniversary special—only 1.3 million tweets, but 9.1 million views of tweets about SNL, far more than the 5.9 million views for _Empire’s_ finale. That means SNL fans may not have been tweeting every moment of the show, but they were checking in on Twitter to see what others had to say about it. Other top-rated series on Twitter include _The Bachelor, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story: Freak Show_ and _Scandal_. As for the second most-tweeted sporting event after the Super Bowl? 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