Ever since texting took flight in the cell phone universe it immediately jumped on a social text bar that was strapped on the bottom of every Much Music video full of teenagers posting random comments like 'I love ya Tina" or "Play Rick Astley! lol!" Now with the birth of a new social network God, Twitter decided to overblow their expanse from the internet to TV. Twitter has already done this during hit shows like Fringe and Glee. This idea was also exploited during the Michael Jackson Memorial.Now I understand in comparison to music video text bars twitter posts relevant comments to the programming, but does anyone really give two tweets about 'Randoguy58's' concern about who will bring the moonwalk back. Many viewers shared horrified sentiments with the TV Tweet trend when it appeared on Fringe and Glee, and it was soon pulled. Like many who have blogged or commented, the Tweets were distracting to the audience despite the Tweets being from production crews and the actors.
This 'lower-third-social-information' impedes on the asthetics of watching and enjoying the romance, action, and suspense, let alone the suspension of disbelief of the shows we watch. I would hate to be watching Battlestar Galactica if Edward James Olmos had tweets popping up during an exciting spaceship battle.
This Twitter bird has also flown its way to IBM who has patent the Tweet remote, so people can ramble about watching television while watching television, this spelled a nightmare come true for many TV lovers who are afraid that it will encourage shows to have more live feeds on the show. Although IBM is working on this technology the annoyance with this idea may kill the Remote before it gets the green light.
Television has always given the comfort of escapism within the comfort of your own home, we do not need little tweets to interrupt our fantasies and pleasures.
Christian A.V. Petrozza
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