Election season is in full swing, and apparently it’s something Australians care about enough to engage with online. The second debate between Turnbull and Shorten on Sky News and ABC saw 8.4k people tweet 52.8k times. In at second place was ABC’s Q&A, which always does well for Twitter engagement, but did exceptionally well last week. It was no doubt helped by an all-political panel featuring the likes of Richard Di Natale, Nick Xenophon and Jacqui Lambie.
In sport, the highest-ever rating Origin Game 1 also did well on Twitter. 16.5k sent out 49.3k tweets about the game.
Source: Nielsen Australia. Rankings based on Tweets for relevant Australian Twitter activity and includes live/new episodes only.
Source: Nielsen Australia. Rankings based on Tweets for relevant Australian Twitter activity and includes live events only. For simulcast events, the rankings reflect the most Tweets across all airing networks, denoted with an asterisk.