Twitter Vision
Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Admin in the Articles section
If Survivor is king of reality TV shows, then Twitter is king of reality Internet and social media. So what do you get when you mix the two together? Well, that’s a question that Twitter and Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment aren’t quite ready to answer with great clarity. However, Brillstein’s Jon Liebman is quite confident when he declares, “we’ve found a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.” This announcement came on Tuesday when Twitter and Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment announced their upcoming joint project.
As if Twitter weren’t popular enough before, adding the TV element is certain to gain users from a less tech-savvy viewership. What’s next? FTV? Facebook TV? Or perhaps, rather than buying newspapers, Google will start its own television network? With Twitter at the forefront of this new media mixture, only time will tell if others will follow the Twitter vision for television.
Using Twitter in reality TV shows will certainly add a new element of reality. For many people, the Internet is a place to share private things they probably wouldn’t even be willing to mention to coworkers or close friends. Ironically though, those same coworkers are a part of their social network, and through the Internet they know they still sleep with a stuffed animal, used to weigh 30 pounds less, and can find at their fingertips 25 other embarrassing facts that they really never wanted to know about in the first place.
This is what adding Twitter to reality TV will give to the new show. Information you never needed to know about someone you don’t really know, but information that you’re dying to know because you feel like you know this person as well as your own brother. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see when the first season opens up. Meanwhile, you can tweet about it, if you want.
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