Everyone has guilty pleasures, for the past year the office was taken over by an mild obsession with Jersey Shore. Yes, that's right- the first pumping, booze chugging, guido fightin' MTV show rocked our office. We're not embarrassed, and we aren't the only ones that have lots love for this humiliating guilty pleasure*. Now entering it's 3rd season this little known MTV experiment has grown into the highest rated show in its history. From a slow start, the show rocked about 4.8 million viewers in its 2nd season. Naturally being fans, we've been tracking some social media metrics of our fave 'guidos' and now with the premiere last night we'd thought it would be fitting to share the results of their Twitter successes.
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Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
Vinny Guardagnino
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Samantha "Sammi Sweetheart" Gicancola
Pauly D
Ronnie Magro
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Over the hiatus of the show the fastest growing Twitter community was the lovable Vinny, with 91.1% growth since the Season 2 finale. Best in show is definitely media loving "Snooki" who has just reached over 1 million followers which is close to double the amount of followers as her cast mates and has a community growth rate of 72%. Disappointments include the "The Situation's" low community growth rate, even after his post Miami activities as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, as well as Ronnie with the lowest following at around 215K.
The show's newest addition, Deena, had overnight success with a community growth of 28.4% since last night's premiere, just shows that fans are going to Twitter right away after being exposed to a TV personality that they like- that's pretty awesome.
*Mike mentioned that he didn't want to me lumped in with us 'Jersey Shore Lovers', but I know for a fact he loves it just as much as Scott, Craig and I.
