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Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series, American media report.

From Salon:

Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.

The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series based on the popular site, which invites 140-character postings from members around the world.

The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format, the show’s producers announced Monday.

I joined Twitter more than two years ago. But the first year I did not use it at all. I could not see for what it was useful. But suddenly, half a year ago, everyone in Sweden (it feels like that) joined and followed me. Now it is very useful. I keep in touch with a lot of blogger and IT-people and get news there.

It you want to follow me in Twitter: here I am.

More about Twitter on TV:
Forbes
Technology Canoe

TechCrunch does not find the idea of taking Twitter to TV so good.

So we’ll wait for more details of the show to surface before we write the inevitable blog post trashing the idea (update: details!). In the meantime, Twitter, as a heavy user there are a nearly unlimited number of things I’d so much rather you guys spend your time on than going Hollywood. Here’s a few key ones, I’m guess lots more will show up in the comments and we’ll get to at least 300 or so things Twitter could better spend its time.

Keep The Lights On. Twitter is still not a stable service.

Fix Track. This is the “Google Alerts” feature of Twitter that made a brief appearance in 2007 but was stripped out in the uptime wars of 2008. It may have made sense to remove it at the time, but we’re long past due on this much needed feature.

I have posted about this in the Swedish site Bloggtidningen, too.

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