I’m not really one to watch award shows, but over the past two weeks I have watched the MTV Video Music Awards and the Primetime Emmys. What stood out to me was not the drunken antics of certain rappers, but the role social networking. From celebrity tweets live from the red carpet, to fans tweeting their disgust of the Kanye West debacle, MTV reported over 2.5 million tweets during their awards show. I noticed a similar situation during the Emmys as well. While perusing this morning’s news stories, I saw a blog written in real-time documenting the show. Anything you wanted to know from what the almighty Justin Timberlake had to say to Sarah Silverman’s fake mustache (actually a pretty humorous moment) was there in posts written every few minutes. You can see it here http://www.examiner.com/x-6593-NY-Theater-Examiner~y2009m9d20-Liveblogging-the-Emmys
Looks like social networking is working its way into everything, or maybe I’m just noticing it more.
1 comments:
You're totally right. It's amazing (possibly a little ridiculous). Personally, I still haven't wrapped my mind around Twittering. I have trouble thinking that someone would care to read what I'm doing, on the hour, every hour.
In other news, about 20 minutes after the Kanye debacle, the website http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/ went up. "Imma let you finish... but". A true manifestation of how quick people are to jump on the "fresh media" wagon.
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