With the 2015-16 TV season now complete and 2016-17 right ahead of us, Nielsen has unveiled some Twitter stats that point to a shift in last season's social media chatter.

According to Nielsen, The Walking Dead was the most tweeted about show last season, with an average of 435,000 tweets sent per episode, a stat that helped keep the show's main tweet competition, Empire, out of the top spot.

Empire, however, was the most talked-about fall premiere, with 1.3 million Tweets sent in the U.S. about the Sept. 2015 episode.

The Walking Dead has now been No. 1 for the last three years running, despite heavy competition from Empire for a period last year.

Meanwhile, TGIT's crown jewel Scandal took 10th place this year, bested by the likes of Game of Thrones, The Bachelor, The Voice, and more.

Really, Twitter? The Bachelor?

The new figures were determined by examining Twitter activity in the U.S. from Aug. 31, 2015, through May 29, 2016.

Here's what the rest of the top 10 looked like and for more stats, visit Nielsen.

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Correction: A previous version of this article mistakenly said Empire claimed the top spot in last year's Nielsen Twitter rankings. The Walking Dead has been No. 1 for three years running.

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