Twitter (Twitter reviews) has had its share of TV appearances over the years. We’ve seen it on CSI two years ago, as well as MTV and Current.TV. It never had its own TV show though, and – according to The New York Times – that’s about to change.
Twitter has apparently partnered with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment to develop an unscripted series, but very little details about the nature of the series have surfaced. We know that it’s going to be a “competitive TV series” which will “harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities.”
According to Variety, the concept was created by novelist/screenwriter Amy Ephron, and one of the producers, Brillstein’s Jon Liebman, has called the series a “compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.”
Those descriptions leave a lot to the imagination, so we’ll have to wait and see (an unspecified amount of time, since there’s no word on when the show might actually air) how and if it works in practice. One thing is certain: the sheer idea sends shivers down Twitter admins’ spines, who’ll have to make sure that the entire system doesn’t collapse under zillions of extra tweets.