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Look, you Twitter. Sure. Everyone twitters. Last night your mom tweeted “10 minutes until I eat soup! Lots Of Love!” But just because everyone does something doesn’t mean we need a TV show about it. But just because everyone does something, of course they’re making a TV show about it. From the AP:
Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series based on the popular 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 show’s producers announced Monday.
“Right now, Twitter is an incredible technological and cultural phenomenon,” said executive producer Amy Ephron, who created the TV show and took it to Twitter.
The producers call their proposed series the first to bring the immediacy of Twitter to the TV screen.
Yuck. That doesn’t even make any sense. Harnessing Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in a competitive format? Huh? The first series to bring the immediacy of Twitter to the TV screen? Wha? Oh, wait, I get it…like regular live TV, which we have had for A MILLION YEARS, but mundane, intensely pointless, and very poorly spelled? Perfect.
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@Gabe: Twitter is the vehicle that will lead us to the future featured in Idiocracy. Also 4 minutes until I go get a latte at the Starbuck’s on 10th because that’s my favori [character limit]
Oh, did you also watch Idiocracy on Comedy Central on Sunday night while everyone else was out celebrating the long weekend? If so, that is the kind of thing one should NOT twitter. I mean, Dax Shepard is in that movie…
Yes, I hadn’t seen it before. It was like a train wreck. I wanted to be watching anything else but the “Do you want another BIG ASS FRIES” stuff snared my attention. I should have been barbecuing or playing baseball or Memorial Day respect.
Celebrities twitter about their secret location and then players try to follow the clues, Amazing-Race-style? The first contestant to reach the celebrity wins lunch? These are my guesses.
Twitter will be known as sHitter from now on.
GMR=Get Me Rewrite!
I like how she is Twitttering in DOS.
I’m actually sincere when I ask this: How would this work?
What’s actually going to be on tv? Just streams of text? I don’t even understand how twitter got to the point where it’s mentioned everywhere in the media. I feel like I’m missing something here, but why does anyone care about status updates that much? Why must I cry?
Could Amy Ephron be related to Nora and Delia Ephron? The just makes too much sense. Ephrons are the worst.
No kidding, didn’t Nora write “You’ve Got Mail” back in 97? And then that new movie about the Julia Child food blogger? It’s like the Ephrons constantly have their fingers on the pulse of America’s mundane technological obsessions. Topical!
I feel so overwhelmed, I’ve never see a web fad take off with the tenacity of Twitter and when it jumps the shark (it was born in midair over the shark) it will jump higher and further than any other.
Twitter is Pac-Man fever.
Pac Man was made decades ago and some people still think of it fondly. Twitter is barely 3 years old and people are already rolling their eyes at its mention.My point, shut your mouth about pacman.
Is bad TV just super in vogue right now? Sit Down Shut Up is terrible, Glee is probably the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and the teasers for every other new sitcom look awful too. How about we just have 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Eastbound and Down, and Party Down play constantly throughout the course of the day so we don’t have to watch anything else?
So celebrities are going to sign up to have players stalk them via twitter? Why not just keep TMZ open on your blackberry and skip the part where you decipher clues? Oops your gameshow is flawed.
@twitterbacklash: are we there yet?
Did you guys see that Ashton Kutcher is threatening to take a Twitter hiatus if they actually make this TV show? I don’t know what side to root for anymore…
producer (amy) = nora ephron’s sister
We did this. This is all our fault.
Facebook, Twitter, Skynet, it’s all the same.
Fuck. This. Shit.
And by the producer of Mr. Show With Bob And David.
this was such a silly idea. it got so much backlash that the owners are backing off of the idea, however they continue to talk about expanding the brand in other ways : http://www.newsy.com/videos/twee_vee_twitter_gets_down_to_business