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Survey sez... Twitter doesn't mean much to moviegoers buying tickets
Sure, it isn't what you'd call empirical scientific evidence but those folks blaming Twitter for spreading bad word-of-text and killing off Bruno and Land of the Lost at the boxoffice are wrong.
Those were just bad movies that a caveman drawing on walls would have sunk.
The geeks at MovieTickets.com surveyed 1,139 people logging in for tickets, with 88 percent saying Twitter doesn't matter, as you can see:
Does buzz on social media platform Twitter.com affect your desire to see a film?
1. No (58%)
2. What’s Twitter? (30%)
3. Yes (12%)
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