Comments on: Moviegoers Not Affected By Twitter Buzz

By: michaeldance

michaeldance — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:52:40 +0000

This isn't surprising at all. The media has been crapping its pants over how awesome Twitter is for the past couple of months, which makes it seem like a bigger deal than it really is. In reality, the median amount of tweets by Twitter users is…1. That means the solid majority of people who join abandon it immediately. That didn't happen with previous phenomenons like Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace.

By: michaeldance

michaeldance — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:52:40 +0000

By: jordanlamb

jordanlamb — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:29:18 +0000

Just an opinion I would like to add to this discussion.
When you say that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen “got beat to hell on Twitter” I'm assuming you mean by the critic realm.
I just want to point out that even if the critic world bashes a movie it doesn't mean that the general public will heed their warning. Same goes with any social media platform. Under the assumption that someone does actually follow (Twitter), or fan (Facebook) a movie reviewer, the weight they give to a film reviewer isn't nearly as heavy as the weight they will give to the people in their everyday lives.

By: Cole_Abaius

Cole_Abaius — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:26:18 +0000

Twitter suffers from the same as-yet-unnamed phenomenon that hits a lot of technological fads. Early adopters believe concomitantly that they are somehow unique for being first to use something and that the platform that they use is highly influential on the populace as a whole. These two concepts are contradictory, but the feelings seem to crop up for a lot of things: uniqueness and mass influence.

The heavy users for Twitter are also within the tech bubble world that makes Twitter seem much, much larger than it actually is.

But movie critics already extrapolate their importance and influence to the breaking point, so I'm not surprised that some would feel their tweets carry water when no one really cares all that much.

By: silent_jay

silent_jay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:05:23 +0000

these arent actual stats, just opinion, but i reckon of all the people that signed up for twitter, the *actual* twitter users is probably only 10% of those that signed up because of hype, and of that 10%, very few have something to say, and an even smaller amount has any significant amount of followers

twitter aint goin to sway many people to or from a movie, even tho the studios like to blame it for low turn outs to their films