The season premiere of Game of Thrones was the most talked about episode of all time on Twitter, according to a new study by musicMagpie.
As well as shattering rating records, the first episode of season 8 saw a record-breaking amount of conversation on Twitter, with 131,582,339 tweets posted discussing it. This is followed by The Walking dead with 114,359,205 and
Stranger Things with 64,008,599.
The premiere was also more positively received online than the season 7 finale, with 38% of tweets being joyous, compared to just 24% for the finale. To add to this, 56% of tweets about the season 7 finale were sad, compared to just 42% for the season 8 premiere.
Meanwhile, for the viewership figures of the first episode of GoT season, HBO announced that 17.4 million people watched it on Sunday night (April 14) after TV viewing figures were combined with its HBO GO and HBO NOW streaming apps.
That’s up “significantly” — as HBO puts it — from Game of Thrones’ all-time record-breaking audience of 16.5 million viewers watching the season 7 finale in 2017.
