'Gravity', NASA, and Twitter Nielsen ratings: 90 Seconds on The Verge
'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
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available it's going to be huge
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