Saturday Night Live just nabbed itself another milestone — its 40th anniversary special broke two Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings records. According to Nielsen, over 449,000 users in the U.S. sent 1.3 million #SNL40-related tweets during the measurement period. These tweets were seen 188 million times by a total of 9.1 million people, topping the night’s other Twitter-friendly shows, AMC’s The Walking Dead and ABC’s The Bachelor. With Sunday’s three-and-a-half-hour special airing outside its usual Saturday night timeslot, the star-studded reunion not only earned SNL its highest unique audience of any series episode in the 2014-2015 season, but also the highest number of impressions of any series episode to date.
