Mediagazer: Nielsen and Twitter Unveil Social TV Metrics, Showing How Little Tweets Line Up with Ratings (Todd Spangler/Variety)

4:30 PM ET, October 7, 2013

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Reed Albergotti / Digits:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Nielsen and Twitter Unveil Social TV Metrics, Showing How Little Tweets Line Up with Ratings — Nielsen and Twitter have released their first rankings of TV shows, designed to show the reach of TV-related conversation on Twitter. — And one thing is immediately clear …

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

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Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

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