'Game of Thrones' Battle of Winterfell becomes most tweeted episode in TV history

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Game of Thrones has broken yet another record.

On April 29, the buzzy third episode of Season 8 of Game of Thrones has officially become the most tweeted-about television episode of all time, meaning yesterday's episode garnered more tweets than any other TV show in history. The episode brought on more than 7.8 million tweets. The new record is only looking at scripted television episodes.

The episode, titled 'The Long Night', was very much talked about due to an epic 67-minute battle scene that pit many Westeros heroes against the White Walkers. The highly anticipated Battle of Winterfell had many fans calling it the biggest episode of Game of Thrones yet.

Coming in at second place in TV tweet history? The April 15 final season premiere of Game of Thrones, which garnered over five million tweets.

So far, in 2019, there have been more than 52 million tweets about Game of Thrones, signalling the expected fanatic interest in the final season of the HBO hit.

Aside from becoming the most tweeted scripted episode in TV history, Monday's episode of Thrones introduced a new emoji to symbolise Arya's weapon. The most tweeted characters last night were Arya, then the Night King, Bran, Jon Snow and Cersei.