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Box Office: Twitter analysis on openers this week from Tuesday.
Posted by: Catzan on Nov 11, 12:29
Box Office: Twitter analysis on openers this week from Tuesday.
Catzan
Nov 11, 12:29
Does anyone have any published stats as to how accurate or inaccurate this Twitter yardstick is compared to the actual opening box office?
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HuskyMiller
Nov 11, 12:41
Look down towards the bottom of the article and you'll see how past films have done compared to the number of tweets they get. Mixed bag
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mrbeankc
Nov 11, 14:19
So that's our HSX trader's new gig.
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Antibody
Nov 11, 12:44
Works for me. He had an idea tried it out here and I guess somebody with stroke liked what he saw/wrote. At least they have a print edition.
Vashta Nerada
Nov 11, 13:10
Very interesting, here is a table of tweet vs BO open and PSA, I see no correlation
sneak
Nov 11, 12:49
This is exacty what I wanted: It appears that "number of tweets" has nothing to do with box office success or failure. it's irrelevant.
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HuskyMiller
Nov 11, 12:59
werd homes. using that boxoffice.com twitter chart is RETARDED. now watch me get moderated for saying retarded.
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adrenalin112
Nov 11, 13:22
I don't think you'll get it for retarded. It was said several times yesterday.
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vegasrebel
Nov 11, 13:26
It's not about the raw numbers, but the ratios
xiayun
Nov 11, 14:10
So right now the number of tweets is tracking between [ZMBLN] and [WILD] numbers. Hmmm, very interesting...
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vegasrebel
Nov 11, 12:57