We’ve written at length here on AllTwitter about Twitter’s inextricable link to the entertainment industry.
Celebrities, TV viewers, and Hollywood executives flock to Twitter to share everything from early release movie reviews to insider intel – and now, apparently, Hollywood studios are even using Twitter for casting.
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It’s the time of year for “year in review” reflections, and Twitter itself got us off to a solid start with their official look back at 2012.
Earlier this morning, we shared with you a handy tool for taking a graphical look at your own year on Twitter.
Now we’re turning to another big player to get a bird’s eye view (forgive us) of 2012 Twitter behavior: the entertainment industry.
In a fascinating study by The Hollywood Reporter and market research firm Penn Schoen Berland released earlier this year, it came to light that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter play an indispensable role in all key aspects of today’s entertainment industry.
It wasn’t so long ago that email didn’t even exist; now Hollywood executives are making decisions based on how the masses are speaking on Twitter.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in Peter Jackson’s brand new Hobbit trilogy that’s a prequel to the extremely popular Lord of the Rings series, premiered in New Zealand yesterday night.
The movie stars fan favorites Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom.
And people are pumped about it.
A job posting by Twitter in July has just been filled, and it heralds a new, more political, branch of the micro-blogging platform. Adam Sharp, pictured here, will be Twitter’s first D.C.-based employee, and he will be sidled with dealing with the political elite in Washington, on behalf of Twitter.
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