Last weekend Paranormal Activity 3 broke box office records when they closed the largest grossing weekend of all time for horror movies, and the biggest October opening ever, at a whopping $54 million.  How did they do it?  It looks like social media, and more specifically Twitter, played an important role in building major buzz that led to this horror flick’s record-breaking weekend.


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All the way up in New York, and even in Toronto, we at the Social Times felt the buildings shake.  None of us were quite sure what it was.  Google News was silent, even Facebook didn't have a peep.  Where do I go, for an immediate reaction and validation of whether it was an earthquake or not?  It has to be a search of the term "earthquake" on Twitter.  And yes, immediately, everyone on Twitter realized that the tremors had shaken the entire Eastern coast of North America.  This pretty much unde [...]

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