WWE PPV Event Sunday Pins Down Major Tweets

WWE’s TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view event commanded the most tweets among television shows yesterday, according to Nielsen.

The three-hour pay-per-view event drew 255,000 tweets reaching 17 million unique Twitter users to easily beat out E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians for the top spot among television shows on Sunday, according to Nielsen’s daily Twitter TV Ratings report.

Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Showtime’s Homeland and ABC’s Quantico rounded out the top five most social shows for the day, said Nielsen.

As with most Sundays during the fall, NFL Football telecasts dominated the top five most social live sports shows, led by Fox Sports’ Atlanta Falcons-Carolina Packers game, which drew 346,000 tweets reaching nearly 6 million Twitter users, according to Nielsen.

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