Posted 07/14/09 at 03:35:39 PM by Paul Lilly

When Sony released Godzilla in 1998, the awful loose remake of the 1954 flick Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the movie managed to take in about $74 million in its first week and $380 million worldwide by the time it left theaters. This despite a bad script, poor acting, and what a essentially amounted to a dinosaur flick à la Jurassic Park, only not nearly as entertaining. Sony can be thankful it didn't have to contend with Twitter.

Fast forward a decade and the social networking phenom may have claimed its first box office victim. Universal's Bruno, starring Sacha Baron Cohen from Borat and Ali G fame, took in a respectable $30.4 million in its opening weekend, but was on pace to collect substantially more. After amassing $14.4 million on Friday, Bruno went into free-fall mode dropping nearly 40 percent in its second day, to $8.8 million. Ice Age 3, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, The Proposal, and The Hangover -- the other 5 movies on th chart -- all saw big increases from Friday to Saturday.

Was Twitter really to blame? Hit the jump to find out!

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