There had been some celebrity live-tweeting of other shark/water-themed SyFy 'original' 'movies' in the last few weeks, so I would guess that Sharknado was heavily promoted during those films. But that doesn't quite explain the dramatic increase, IMO.
While Shark Week is nigh, I haven't seen evidence of major cross-promotion between the Universal family of networks and the Discovery bunch. But I wasn't looking for it. David ________________________________ From: Tom Wolper <[email protected]> To: TV or not TV <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Twitterverse Goes Crazy Over 'Sharknado' On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: Looks like Syfy will be very happy about moving their crappy made-fors to Thursday nights for the summer after years on Saturday nights--the tweets were fast and furious after last night's "Sharknado," starring (and we use that term advisedly) Ian Ziering and Tara Reid and about sharks hidden in tornadoes (we are not kidding), with celebs joining in the wisecracking like Elizabeth Banks, "Lost" creator Damon Lindlof and Patton Oswalt, among others--looks like Skiffy will brush off the whining fanboiz just like they usually do: > > >http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/sharknado-takes-big-bite-hollywood-tweeters-102706 > Does anyone know what drove this tweeting flash mob? I use Tweetdeck and I have a column for a group of beat writers for the Pittsburgh Penguins and two reporters, for competing papers, live tweeted the movie last night. There were retweets from other hockey writers so somehow this became an event. For a savvy network or cable channel, this seems like a good way to draw ratings for a mediocre movie or show. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
