Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) wait for the approaching Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) in a scene of "Game of Thrones" season 6 episode 9, "Battle of the Bastards." (Photo : YouTube / Game of Thrones Updates)
Sansa Stark, Sophie Turner's character in HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones," created a buzz on social media, multiplying her Twitter traffic by 10 after the character's revenge on Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) in Season 6 episode 9, "Battle of the Bastards." The season's finale has already been aired on June 26, Sunday, but the fans of the fantasy drama could not forget the death of one of the show's most hated villains, courtesy of Stark. Bolton is Starks' former husband.
Episode 9 had epic fight scenes between Bolton's camp and that of Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Stark's elder half-brother. What was buzzing on social media was not about the fight though, but Stark's personal revenge.
According to data analytics company DataScience, Inc., all the traffic on Twitter was about Stark's moment of personal revenge at the end of "Game of Thrones" season 6 episode 9. People were chatting about her revenge towards Bolton whom she fed to his own wild dogs.
Twitter was swept with the hashtag "#releasethehounds" which marked Stark's triumph. Stark's sweet revenge turned Twitter's maximum velocity for episode 9 of the HBO's hit past the 3,500 tweet-per-minute mark.
Through the episode, other characters also had their own spikes on Twittersphere, including Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), and her chemistry with Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan) which soared traffic to a thousand tweets a minute. The last of the giants, Wun Wun (Ian Whyte), captured the hearts of many as the audience took to Twitter to express their grief over his death.
Killed by Bolton, online talks about Wun Wun reached 500 tweets a minute. Snow had a steady traffic throughout the episode.
Stark has turned into a key player of the game from being just a victim. She was determined to take control of her fate to escape the sadistic grip of her husband. No longer a girl dreaming of becoming a princess, she has become the survivor whose strategies worked in her favor. Whatever kind of fate awaits her can be undermined via her dealings with Snow and Littlefinger (Aidan Gillen), according to Time.
Watch Stark and Snow's encounter with Bolton in the video below.
