When news broke last May that Twitter was teaming up with a production company to develop an unscripted TV series, the Internet went mad. Some tech blogs rejoiced, "Twitter on TV... I like it!" And ...

Hordes of Twitter fans have spoken out against Twitter’s integration with the television industry, even causing the world’s top Twitterer, Ashton Kutcher, to threaten a hiatus from the microblogging ...

Nielsen has released its Twitter TV ratings, showing that there has been a 38 percent increase in tweets about TV in the US over the last year — from 190 million in Q2 2012 to 263 million in Q2 2013.

Twitter has announced it’s acquiring live-TV clipping service SnappyTV, a platform used by broadcasters and rights-holders to edit and distribute snippets of live TV across the social sphere shortly ...

NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year ...

“Twitter TV is a bad idea,” said Brennon Slattery in PC World. Not only has the plan for a TV show based on Twitter caused “the world’s top Twitterer”—actor Ashton Kutcher—to “threaten a hiatus from ...

Ten years after “Sharknado” spun Twitter and TV together, the online water cooler is running dry. By James Poniewozik On July 11, 2013, a superstorm made landfall on the internet. “Sharknado,” the ...

— -- Twitter is partnering with Nielsen to provide a "common benchmark" from which to measure a TV program's engagement. The "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating," as it will be known, will be available ...

Verizon’s just added something to FiOS that’s either a blessing or a curse for Twitter addicts–a live feed of your Twitter account that’ll appear on your TV over the show you’re watching, part of a ...

Hardcore users of Twitter are still taking in the news that the social networking site is devoting some of its energy to getting into the TV business (instead of, say, adding nested replies or making ...

New research from Nielsen shows that Twitter TV activity can show just how engaged the general viewing population is with the TV programming its watching. The study analyzed minute-by-minute Twitter ...

The social network previously bought Bluefin Labs and partnered with Nielsen on ratings data. By Erik Hayden Twitter has snapped up another social-media firm that analyzes TV data. On Wednesday, ...