BET Awards: Telecast generates nearly 10 million tweets

Sunday night’s BET Awards, telecast from the Nokia Theatre in downtown L.A., were by far the most tweeted-about event of the week, according to rankings from Nielsen’s SocialGuide, which measures Twitter TV activity.

The 12-year-old award show’s broadcast generated nearly 10 million tweets, blowing away last week’s top-tweeted event, Nik Wallenda’s successful attempt to cross the Grand Canyon on a tightrope, which boasted about 1 million.

The second-season premiere of MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show,” a reality program about online dating, came in second place with 776,155 tweets for the week ended June 30. Social media mainstay “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” took the No. 3 spot.

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The BET Award’s pre-show got 375,743 tweets, making it the show with the fourth-most Twitter engagement.

Here’s the complete list from Nielsen’s SocialGuide:

1. “BET Awards 2013” | BET | June 30 | 9,962,354 tweets

2. “Catfish: The TV Show” | MTV | June 25 | 776,155 tweets

3. “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” | VH1 | June 24 | 405,141 tweets

4. “BET Awards 2013 Pre-Show: Live! Red! Ready!” | BET | June 30 | 375,743 tweets

5. “Pretty Little Liars” | ABC Family | June 25 | 333,538 tweets

6. “Teen Wolf” | MTV | June 24 | 264,121 tweets

7. “WWE Monday Night RAW” | USA | June 24 | 206,169 tweets

8. “Big Brother” | CBS | June 26 | 118,551 tweets

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9. “Dexter” | Showtime | June 30 | 73,933 tweets

10. “The Bachelorette” | ABC | June 24 | 71,275 tweets

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