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'Gravity', NASA, and Twitter Nielsen ratings: 90 Seconds on The Verge

2013-10-07
it's Monday October 7 2013 I'm Danberg and I cure my Monday blues by convincing myself it's Wednesday hey guys it's hump day this is 90 seconds on the verge gravity was released over the weekend and the numbers were out of this world the sci-fi film gravity had a record-breaking opening weekend Alfonso Cuaron a space epic middle whopping 55 point six million dollars over the weekend making it the most successful October opening ever surprisingly eighty percent of that gross came from 3d screenings if you stand still and listen carefully you can actually hear James Cameron celebrating in his avatar themed mansion and gravity isn't the only thing taking off NASA's plan to send a probe to Mars on November eighteenth is indeed happening despite the government shutdown it qualifies as an emergency given its importance as a communications relay point between Earth and the Rovers on Mars now we're only a few years away from setting up a new society on Mars and creating a space government that eventually gets shut down and finally Nielsen ratings are about to get a big boost of help thanks to viewers like you twitter is rolling out its Nielsen TV Twitter rating system in the u.s. today they will show both the number of tweets mentioning specific shows and the number of accounts those tweets reach the breaking bad finale was mentioned in 1.2 million tweets but those tweets reached 9.3 million Twitter accounts and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we continue to bring you the biggest largest most gigantic news available it's going to be huge
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