The Oscars were good news for Facebook; Twitter, not so much

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Twitter's Oscar night stats won't win any awards. Fewer people tweeted about the Oscars telecast this year than in 2014 or even in 2013, according to Nielsen

Nielsen figures showed there were a total of 5.9 million Oscar-related tweets. That's down about 65% from last year's 17.1 million. In 2013, there were 8.9 million tweets about the show

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A Twitter rep told Mashable that the 17.1 million wasn't an apples-to-apples comparison. Nielsen reported last year that the number of Oscar-related tweets was 11.2 million, which means the 2015 figure is roughly a 47% drop Read more...

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