Christmas Day really was the Time of the Doctor as viewers took to Twitter to post nearly 200,000 tweets mentioning the series, Radio Times reports.

In total, 183,550 tweets were generated during the special’s broadcast on BBC One, triple the amount posted during last year’s festive adventure The Snowmen (64,049).

Meanwhile, 7,829 posts materialisied when the credits rolled as fans reacted to the debut of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor.

The statistics make The Time of the Doctor the second most tweeted about Doctor Who episode on record, behind last month’s 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor, which generated over 400,000 to become the most tweeted about TV drama in history.

Click HERE to review the Eleventh Doctor’s final adventure in our discussion…