Fans of “The Walking Dead” love tweeting about the show and Norman Reedus’ character Daryl Dixon. Recently, the show won the Most Bingeworthy Award at the 2015 Critics’ Choice Television Awards. The show also went past “Game of Thrones” on Twitter.

“The Walking Dead” bagged the Bingeworthy Award at this year’s Critics’ Choice Television Awards. The AMC’s zombie show defeated “Orange Is the New Black,” “Game of Thrones,” “Empire,” “American Horror Story” and “Vikings.”

Also, Nielsen Social released a report stating the most talked about TV specials and shows in the period of September 2014 to May 24, 2015. The report mentioned that “The Walking Dead” topped the list on being the most popular on Twitter (via Entertainment Weekly). Close to 480,000 tweets per “The Walking Dead” episode and average Twitter TV audience members – 4.3 million. Meanwhile, the AMC show went past “Game of Thrones” which had 107,000 tweets per episode and 2.8 million average members.

“The Bachelor” got 156,000 tweets per episode with 3.6 million average Twitter television audiences and “American Horror Story” got 239,000 tweets per episode and 2.8 million average Twitter audiences. Meanwhile, in terms of tweets per episode, “Empire” was great with 627,000 tweets and 2.6 million average Twitter audiences.

“Saturday Night Live” made a new record for the top series episode. The show’s 40th anniversary special got 1.3 million tweets and reached out to 16.1 million people. “Viewers of Saturday Night Live span several generations. From the Baby boomers to Generation X to whatever you call the little dummies who are live-tweeting this right now instead of watching it,” Tina Fey said.

Now, it has to be seen how many tweets can “The Walking Dead” Season 6, episode 1 can get as it premieres this October on AMC. The show will pick things up from Season 5 finale instalment.

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