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‘‘
I DON’T WANT TO HAVE
SOMEBODY GIVE ME THEIR
VIEW OF PRESIDENT KARZAI
... THOSE IN HOLLYWOOD
WHO THINK THEY’RE
VERY KNOWING ON POLICY
MAY WANT THAT, BUT I
THINK IT’S STUPID.
— AUTHOR GAY TALESE
‘‘
won the country’s first-ever Oscar, for A Separation. Angelina
Jolie introduced the world to her
leg. But social-media experts still
pronounced the night a bore. “We
were prepared for big spikes,” Jenn
Davis, CEO of the analytics company TweetReach, told TechCrunch.
Davis was talking about spikes in
tweets per second — or units of engagement, as a television executive
might put it. But, on Oscar night
2012, “We just didn’t see those.”
So, you may be asking, what’s
an Academy to do? Assign 100
sham Twitter accounts per
member? Return to the untelevised days of old, when the show
stretched past 2 a.m. some years,
with no FCC cen 6