uber-trendy microblogging platform of choice, twitter, is making a reality TV show featuring both "real users" and celebs.
So, this is an interesting one.
Reuters is reporting that Twitter, golden child of the internet new world order, home of the Twitterati, is making moves towards one of of the very media channels which many of us in the “new media” world see as on it’s way to the grave (certainly in it’s current look and feel)…
TV
No, not IPTV, not Apple TV, not dodgy shows you’ve downloaded via torrent from a site i couldn’t possibly list or guide you towards, plain old broadcast medium of choice, Television.
Yes, your favourite microblogging platform and mine is to create it’s own TV series, where “real life” twitter users get to interact on an unscripted show with celebrity twitterers. Quite how this will happen isn’t clear right now, but it’s being created in collaboration with production companies who seem to be pretty big hitters – one of them being Reveille who are behind “The Office” (presumably the US version? I dunno?)
I’ll be interested to see how this plays out. The juxtaposition of such a contemporary, not-quite-worked-out-yet medium like Twitter choosing the traditional, we get it already (or we thought we did) medium of TV is, for me at least, very interesting.
I look forward to the first episode hitting the torrents soon!
Howard
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