I’ve been watching the double-screening Twitter+TV phenomenon with great interest. I’m not sold on the asynchronous aspect of Splashcast. It may be novel to see the commentary of friends (and strangers) running along side the content, but you can hardly have a back-and-forth dialog with people that are no longer there. So you’re not really “joining the conversation” you’re just an observer of it, after the fact (This is also already a feature built into some video sites, like Viddler that let you add comments to the timeline).

One observation I find quite interesting is how Twitter has actually given new life to the 30 sec. spot by re-synchronizing people’s viewing habits. There were some astute observations made of this during the Academy Awards. Fewer people were Tivo-ing past commercials or watching out-of-sync, because when they did, those who were double-screening would also find themselves out-of-sync with the running dialog on Twitter.

I do think there is a big place for combining video and chat. I also think networks would do themselves a great service to heavily promote Twitter during their programing. It keeps their viewers synchronized and negates the Tivo effect.

Thank you for the article (and thanks for following me on Twitter today, that is how I found your blog).

I’ve been watching the double-screening Twitter+TV phenomenon with great interest. I’m not sold on the asynchronous aspect of Splashcast. It may be novel to see the commentary of friends (and strangers) running along side the content, but you can hardly have a back-and-forth dialog with people that are no longer there. So you’re not really “joining the conversation” you’re just an observer of it, after the fact (This is also already a feature built into some video sites, like Viddler that let you add comments to the timeline).

One observation I find quite interesting is how Twitter has actually given new life to the 30 sec. spot by re-synchronizing people’s viewing habits. There were some astute observations made of this during the Academy Awards. Fewer people were Tivo-ing past commercials or watching out-of-sync, because when they did, those who were double-screening would also find themselves out-of-sync with the running dialog on Twitter.

I do think there is a big place for combining video and chat. I also think networks would do themselves a great service to heavily promote Twitter during their programing. It keeps their viewers synchronized and negates the Tivo effect.

Thank you for the article (and thanks for following me on Twitter today, that is how I found your blog).

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give me more.

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c