So
movie award season is over! Finally right? It all came to a pulsating
end on Sunday 24th Feb via the red carpet extravaganza
show that is the Oscars. Furthermore this year Oscars has seen a
dramatic rise in “Oscar” talk via social networks, predominantly
Facebook and Twitter.
During
the Oscars there were 66.6 million Facebook interactions regarding
the live televised show.
As
an anticipated the tweets started as soon as the first celebrity set
foot on the red carpet with 2.1 million tweets, generally judging
which celebrities passed the extremely high fashion test. A further
6.8 million tweets were sent out during the show with considerable
recognition for both Adele’s performance of SkyFall and ultimate
Oscar win.
Source:
http://mashable.com/2013/02/25/oscars-facebook-chatter/
Another
big Twitter hit was winner of best picture “Argo” scooping up
85,300
tweets per minute whilst mentions on Facebook soared by 2,460%.
The
shows host and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane received a mixed
bag of reviews via Twitter, however Celeb friends jumped to his
defence on the back of a mauling from disgruntled fans.
Every
year the Oscars gets bigger and better and is attracting segments of
the market like never before ultimately by this social surge.
Hollywood is laughing all the way to the bank followed closely by
Facebook and Twitter.
