Twitter Responds: There is No Official Twitter TV Show
Twitter responded today to reports, stemming from a Variety article, that a Twitter TV show is in the works. Twitter’s Biz Stone has confirmed that Twitter has signed a contract with production company Reveille and Brillstein for a TV show, but emphasizes that this is not an “official” Twitter show – it’s a non-exclusive contract, and multiple companies are currently working on TV projects related to Twitter. In plain english, then: Twitter is allowing production companies to work on Twitter shows, but there will be many of these and Twitter will not, it seems, endorse one ahead of another. This sounds similar to the Nighttline web show launched by ABC: the company claimed to have an agreement with Twitter, but this is likely to be non-exclusive.
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