Twitter tends to be all over the tech news for days at a time. More often than not, it’s over interesting, but silly things. There was all sorts of confusion over the “Twitter TV show” yesterday. In a series of clarifying posts, Biz Stone has stated that you don’t have to worry. Twitter is not becoming a reality show. Instead, he says,
Some Hollywood folks are developing something that leverages Twitter and they are extremely enthusiastic as evidenced by all the media hubbub yesterday and today. We have little to do with their efforts but we wish them success.
After the social-networking service Twitter announced Monday it was in talks to develop an unscripted series based on the site, two of the service’s most prolific users have expressed fear that such a jump would mean an unfair intrusion on their lives.
Really? Just using Twitter isn’t allowing everyone into your lives? I suppose the difference is the amount of control you have over what you publish yourself. That said, I’ve always called Twitter permission-based stalking. People laugh, but it’s true. You’re allowing people into your lives with every follow and every tweet. The opt-out? Well, you can be selective about it with a private account or you can just not tweet. Of course, once you’ve campaigned for over 1 million followers to read your tweets, I’m not sure opting out is still an option.
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