Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings: October 7 - 13, 2013

Nielsen has began releasing its new Twitter TV Ratings and for the week of October 7, 2013, THE WALKING DEAD tops the list.

The list is sorted by a shows unique audience and TWD easily drew the most with just under 7.5 million people/accounts. The next closest program was AMERICAN HORROR STORY, nearly three million back.

THE WALKING DEAD also had the most tweets for the week, collecting over 1.17 million individual tweets

Those 7.5 million unique accounts watching THE WALKING DEAD generated nearly 66 million impressions Those impressions are the accounts the received and viewed a given tweet. This can include retweets of a given tweet, by a second, or multiple other accounts.

So, THE WALKING DEAD had 7.5 million audience members, generating 1.17 million tweets that were seen 66 million times, as a group.

Rank	Program	Net	Unique Audience*	Impressions*	Tweets
1	The Walking Dead	AMC	7.491	65.925	1,172,000
2	American Horror Story	FX	4.624	24.987	435,600
3	Catfish: TV Show	MTV	3.544	39.011	743,600
4	The X Factor	FOX	2.393	13.061	422,900
5	The Voice (M)	NBC	1.972	4.668	115,00
6	Jimmy Kimmel Live (W)	ABC	1.943	7.190	57,100
7	Dancing With The Stars	ABC	1.696	4.428	43,500
8	WWE Raw	USA	1.392	8.155	176,800
9	Kardashians	E!	1.216	1.858	32,900
10	The Voice (TU)	NBC	1.148	2.018	49,000

This chart captures relevant Tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to an episode from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe episodes only and excludes sports events. Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings are only available for English-language U.S. Broadcast and Cable Networks.