Sheen vs. Kutcher: Who's Dominating the Social Media Conversation? [STATS]

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Sheen vs. Kutcher: Who's Dominating the Social Media Conversation? [STATS]
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Charlie Sheen dominated the social conversation, according to data from social media monitoring company Visible Technologies as well as information from social TV analytics platform Bluefin Labs.

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Bluefin Labs Signals Pulse pegged The Roast of Charlie Sheen with 148,000 total comments, from 98,000 unique authors. In comparison, the new season of Two and a Half Men scored 92,000 total comments from 75,000 unique authors. Men came in third place for the night in Bluefin's social TV dashboard, right behind Dancing with the Stars.

Visible Technologies broke down the number of tweets about Kutcher and Sheen in terms of volume and sentiment. While more tweets were about Sheen, he had proportionally more negative tweets than @Aplusk.

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Check out this sample of tweets about both stars.

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When it came to the roast itself, Amy Schumar had 38% of the mentions, beating out the likes of Mike Tyson, William Shatner and Seth MacFarlane.

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"Men" Still Ratings Champ

The overnight ratings for Monday night are now in and Roast of Charlie Sheen scored 6.4 million viewers. That's a record for the Comedy Central series, besting the 6.1 million viewers that tuned into the Jeff Foxworthy roast back in 2005.

As for Two and a Half Men, the Kutcher's debut episode brought in a jaw-dropping 28.7 million viewers. For a network program, even a top-rated comedy, to score that many viewers is nothing short of astounding. Now let's see how many viewers tune back in next week!

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