Twitter’s head of TV, Fred Graver, reveals in a blog post titled “A look back at the Oscars” (yes, this morning it does seem so very long ago) that there were nearly 9 million tweets about the 85th annual Academy Awards last night, including 2.1 million during the red-carpet pre-show, and 6.8 million during the big show itself.
According to Graver’s numbers, Adele was arguably the night’s big social-media winner. She appears twice in Twitter’s Top 5 list of Oscar moments that prompted the most tweets-per-minute (TPM) — and came within spitting distance of the inevitable most-tweeted moment (the announcement of Best Picture) with her performance of “Skyfall”:
1. “Argo” wins Best Picture: 85,300 TPM
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