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This time around, Ricky Gervais was not as loud as he was for the past two times he's hosted the Golden Globes. Nonetheless, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the awards on social media.

Twitter was the most dominant social network for the Golden Globes with a peak of 6,162 Tweets per second.

Networked Insights ran some analysis and came up with some overall trends.

62% of the conversation was about the winners
48% of the conversation was about the Red Carpet
12% was about upsets — that is, unexpected winners
9% was about Gervais

And given two years in a row of "bad taste" or really awesome jokes depending on how you look at it, 32% of the tweets about the comedian were about how he wasn’t making enough jokes or on-screen enough, according to Networked Insights.

TweetReach worked with mhCarter Consulting and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to track and analyze tweets. It came up with this infographic:

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Zooey Deschanel had the most re-tweeted post of the night when she flaunted her Prada dress and tuxedo painted fingernails.