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Hot off the PressRelationships between Twitter amp TVDo tweets drive consumers to tune-in to a program or are viewers just chatting about shows theyrsquore already watchingThe answer is both A new independent study by Nielsen provides for the first time statistical evidence of the two-way influence between broadcast TV tune-in for a program and the Twitter conversation around that program The results also showed that the volume of tweets caused significant changes in live TV ratings among 29 percent of the episodes

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HOW DO TWEETS AFFECT TV TUNE-IN

Measuring the two-way causal impact of Twitter and TV ratings

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