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Jun 10Tweevee.
Alyssa Rosenberg catches television shows diversifying:
It’s becoming more common for shows and movies to create character Twitter accounts. Glee, for example, has a whole bunch of them set up, but they aren’t particularly good: lots of repeated jokes, extreme sporadic entries, no real interaction with the events of the plot or deeper development of the characters beyond their tics. I think feeds like these will work best if they’re treated like webisodes, a way of offering more, quality original content that expands a universe, and can be produced at no cost other than the time of the person who is tasked with updating them. But that means taking them seriously. Just because a product doesn’t require major production costs doesn’t mean it should look and read cheap.
Although I’m not sure how it’d work for movies, it’s a great idea for TV–I know I’d follow Community twits. Also, a few webcomics have been doing this for a while; Achewood had blogs1 by several characters, and Questionable Content‘s characters are on Twitter.
- For all I know, they may still be active, as paid content. ↩
Tagged: culture, pop, tv, twits, web