During the show, I hear the word "Twitter" at least 3,219 times and have noticed they have "live" tweets scrolling down the bottom of the screen. These tweets are nearly all positive tweets, hash-tagging various dancers and the show itself (#dwts). SMH has picked up on this and has had various results. The accounts that are tweeting are new (created just hours before #dwts aired) and have been inactive since. Strange, huh?
Mr Nassar, who operates the social media monitoring service TweeVee TV has said that five out of the 17 tweets broadcast had come from "unusual Twitter profiles". He has messaged them and until now there has been no reply, the accounts have been inactive since the broadcast. Channel Seven declined to address questions about authenticity of the accounts, saying:
Yahoo!7 and the production team selected a range of tweets with the #dwts hashtag based on what was trending and put them to air as is standard industry practice.
PS: Samantha Armytage, I have a #crush on you.