What did people actually think of the 2016 Emmy nominations? You may be surprised.
Within the first two hours after the list was announced on Thursday morning, there were nearly 79,000 tweets about the nominations.
When it came to users on the social-media platform, which nominations were fans celebrating? And which ones got a thumbs-down from the internet? Did Twitter users approve of the nominations or did they feel they were wildly off?
Business Insider partnered with Amobee Brand Intelligence— a company that provides marketing insight and measures real-time content consumption across the internet, social, and mobile — to find out what people were saying and feeling about the noms on Twitter.
Here is what people really thought of the 2016 Emmy nominations:
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The TV Academy got it mostly right.
Sentiment around the hashtag #Emmys was 52% positive, 43% neutral, and 5% negative. That means the audience was pretty happy with the nominations.
Go "Americans"!
Nearly 39,000 tweets mentioned FX's "The Americans," which finally got a nod for best drama, alongside its stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys in the lead acting categories.
"Game of Thrones" is on top.
About 37,000 tweets revolved around "Game of Thrones," which netted the most nominations this year with 23.
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