Social Media is moving
into television on an increasing basis. This is the theme of a post by Tim
Dillard on TheNextWeb: Will 2010 be
the Year of Social TV?.
For example, fans of certain TV shows from different time zones are
saving the latest episodes of their favorite shows and then arranging common
viewing times with their friends to watch the shows whilst discussing the
action together on Skype,
The shows themselves are also launching efforts, sometimes with mixed results. In the UK, high profile post-apocalypse drama, BBC’s ‘Survivors’, launched with stream of tweets from ’survivors’. They were supposedly trying to get messages out to a world in which most of the population had been wiped out by a mystery virus. However, the effort did not last.
It seems the most successful efforts so far are user generated. For example, with Twitter, real-time conversations about TV shows at the shows are broadcast live are linked together through the use of hashtags.
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