I did my project on The Walking Dead season 6 finale, which happened last Sunday night. I didn’t grab tweets from the night of, but I scraped tweets from midday on Monday, and people were still actively tweeting about the episode.

 

 

First, I introduced the show a bit before putting in a Tag Cloud. The results are fairly predictable, with lots of variations of #TWD #TWDfinale. Characters were mentioned often, as well as emotional words like #feel, #love, #hate, etc.

I pulled the most retweeted post from Chandler Riggs, the actor who plays Carl. He said, “If it makes you feel any better, I still don’t know who got killed and it’s been like 6 months since I read the script #whoisit.”

This season finale was a cliffhanger like that time when Glen hid from walkers under a dumpster. Did he die? No. Did he die this time?
This season finale was a cliffhanger like that time when Glen hid from walkers under a dumpster. Did he die? No. Did he die this time?

After that, I added up the number of mentions of each character and put it in a bar chart. The newly introduced villain, Negan, was the most frequent, followed by Glen and Daryl, the two characters who most speculated were most likely to be killed off of the show.

I also included some links to the show’s website as well as the comic website. Check it out here.

Walking Dead Frequent Mentions