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Published on May 26th, 2009

If they can make this work, think of all the other Twitter-enhanced things it could usher in:

Competitive Olympic Twittering
Simon Cowell’s latest – American Tweet
America’s Top Twit – geekette models and their iPhones
Twitted Shakespeare — (Hamlet) “Alas poor Tweet, I knew him well.”
Movies like ‘The Twitinator’, ‘Silence of the Tweeters’, ‘Star Twit’ (“Boldly going where no Tweet has gone before”)

Cripes!

Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.

The social-networking service said Monday it has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series based on the site, which invites 140-character postings from members around the world.

The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format.

The producers call their proposed series the first to bring the immediacy of Twitter to the TV screen.

“Twitter is transforming the way people communicate, especially celebrities and their fans,” said Reveille managing director Howard T. Owens, who expects the new project to “unlock Twitter’s potential on TV.”

No further details were made available on the show’s format or when it might hit the air.

There has been a response from Twitter on the news reports. And here’s one guy’s suggestion on what Twitter should work on before going on TV.

9 users responded in " Twitter TV? "

# 1 lock_down said, on May 26th, 2009 at 4:11 am

When you start trying to enhance the service, it’s a sign that spells the end for Twitter.

In a year or two, we’ll all be using something else, and everyone will have forgotten about Twitter.

# 2 Zybch said, on May 26th, 2009 at 4:14 am

Enough with the Twitter crap already!

““Twitter is transforming the way people communicate, especially celebrities and their fans,””
No it bloody well isn’t. Its making stupid people more and more stupid, especially now that its a ‘hit’ with celebrities!

# 3 Brian said, on May 26th, 2009 at 5:35 am

Amen #2. Twitter is for twits

# 4 Ron Larson said, on May 26th, 2009 at 6:49 am

“..put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format.”

So in other words, competitive stalking.

# 5 soundwash said, on May 26th, 2009 at 8:08 am

#4…lol (sad)

..So, in a country suffering from “attention deficit cancer” whose differential includes a program that demands no more than 15 to 30 seconds of relevant information, -and 30 minutes to 3 months of completely irrelevant garbage..

..someone has diagnosed a treatment of even
smaller doses of said information as a cure.

just great.
nice to see our priorities are in order.[sic]

-s

# 6 Nimby said, on May 26th, 2009 at 8:54 am

I always said, Twitter is the National Enquirer of messaging. This move should put it out of our misery.

# 7 Tomas said, on May 26th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Twitter sux. RIP.

# 8 mr show said, on May 26th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Wait a second…I thought there was a twitter tv already called Twit.tv!

# 9 Rosa said, on May 28th, 2009 at 8:05 am

twitter is actually pretty cool and useful if you use it for something other than stalking aston kutcher. Speaking of kutcher he may be responsible for putting the kibosh on the twitter tv thing, he threatened to leave the site. But the founders are still talking about other ways to expand: http://www.newsy.com/videos/twee_vee_twitter_gets_down_to_business

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