LOS ANGELES, Aug 31 ― Between Stranger Things, The Sandman and Bridgerton, fans of series have been in for a treat this year. Before the busy fall season gets underway, let's take a look at the Netflix series that Twitter users were buzzing about. Here are the 15 Netflix series generating the most tweets on the social network.
Were you more interested in romantic or science fiction series on Netflix over the past 8 months? It's time to take stock as fall season begins. Streaming fans have had plenty of choice throughout the year on the streaming platform with the return of some of the American giant's flagship series.
Stranger Things is the most talked about series on Twitter with social network monitoring tool Visibrain counting 23.1 million tweets between January and August 2022. The sci-fi series, whose fourth season was launched in two parts in May and July 2022, has broken viewing records on Netflix. The first part of the latest season of Stranger Things even had the luxury of beating another hit series of the American giant, Bridgerton.
According to Visibrain, Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2 generated 4.4 million tweets out of 23.1 million posts on Twitter. Users also widely discussed Kate Bush's song, Running Up That Hill, which was used during a scene in the first part of Season 4. In all, more than 46,600 tweets mentioned the song and artist “on the release weekend of Part 2 alone,” Visibrain said. The 1980s cult song even saw its listening jump on Spotify.
Beaten by Stranger Things, Bridgerton still rocked the social networks in 2022. On Twitter, the period romance series generated 4.9 million tweets for its second season. The main character, Viscount Anthony Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey, seduced more users than his sister, Daphne, the heroine of the first season. Some 100,000 tweets were published on the social network the weekend after the release of the new season, that's six times more than for Season 1.
New series generate surprise
The K-drama trend is having a ripple effect on Twitter. The first season of Twenty-Five Twenty-One, a South Korean series launching in February 2022 on Netflix, hooked viewers, who posted 4 million tweets with peaks of up to 13 tweets per second, the monitoring platform said.
The Sandman, the latest adaptation of Neil Gaiman's work, takes eighth place in the ranking. Launched August 5, the new series has already accumulated 1 million tweets.
Netflix is the big winner on Twitter. The streaming platform manages to do better than its competitors on the platform with 64.3 million tweets about it and its content published since January 1, 2022. That's 10 per cent more than in 2021 and 34 per cent more than its rivals like Disney+, Visibrain added.
Top 10 most talked-about series on Twitter (between January and August 2022)
Stranger Things (season 4): 23.1 million tweets
Bridgerton (season 2): 4.9 million tweets
Twenty-Five Twenty-One (season 1): 4 million tweets
Peaky Blinders (season 6): 1.9 million tweets
Umbrella Academy (season 3): 1.4 million tweets
After Life (season 3): 1.3 million tweets
Outlander (season 4) : 1 million tweets
The Sandman (season 1): 1 million tweets
Ozark (season 4): 1 million de tweets
Love is Blind (season 2): 875 711 tweets
Brooklyn NIne-Nine (season 8): 387 310 tweets
Elite (season 5) : 367 818 tweets
Formula: Drive to survive (season 4): 316 980 tweets
Inventing Anna (season 1): 287 273 tweets
Rhythm + Flow France (season 1): 258 637 tweets ― ETX Studio
