Comments on: Verdict is In……Twitter and Fox Went Past the Fringe

By: marcus

marcus — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:08:27 +0000

I have to agree with your commentators. Adding twitter to a show is very annoying and a waste of screen space.

By: Add Link

Add Link — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:44:53 +0000

The only reason i watch fox is for the simpsons, if they removed the simpsons from fox i would give up watching that channel completely.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:03:39 +0000

I’m hearing impaired and must use closed captioning…the 1/3rd take over of the screen estate with Twitter crap makes it near impossible to watch the show. Wise up Fox.

By: Verdict is In……Twitter and Fox Went Past the Fringe | Twittermazing

Verdict is In……Twitter and Fox Went Past the Fringe | Twittermazing — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:20:16 +0000

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By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:34:45 +0000

I WILL stop watching FOX if they continue this hideous “experiment”. I don’t know whose idea it was but he/she needs a LOOOONG vacation – permanently?

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:04:14 +0000

It was not totally a repeat and my husband and I both are finding it extremely irritating. We record and then watch at a later date to be able to skip through the commercials. Now what do we do? We can’t skip the Twitter stuff – plus, some of the words were offensive.
If people want to talk on Twitter – then by all means – Go directly to Twitter – just don’t subject the rest of the viewing public who just want to be entertained by the picture and story! I sincerely hope this isn’t going to be repeated on other Fox programs – about the time I see someone Twitter across the screen when Charles Krauthammer is speaking – that will just be the pits!

By: mint

mint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:11:11 +0000

fair enough but SERIOUSLY it is a repeat! if people can take it so seriously that for some reason they decide to never ever watch the show again because of that..that’s just LAME, i mean it is the 18th episode, it’s probably best to start getting into the show much earlier?

If somehow fox lost viewers for season 2 because of this then that’s just sad.
and to state the really really obvious.. SEASON 2 ISN’T GOING TO HAVE TWEET-PEAT OK.

go FRINGE!

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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:49:44 +0000

[...] In reality, not so much thanks to three big issues. First of all, Twitter, unlike chat rooms, are designed to show only the side of the conversation that comes from people you’re following. As a result, people following along on TV or on the FringeonFox Twitter page saw answers but no questions. [...]

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:33:04 +0000

I think it was a fun idea – as others have said, it was a repeat and I love behind the scenes trivia. Where it didn’t work for me was the way Twitter is designed to only show one end of the conversation. For example, Joshua Jackson had a Tweet on screen something about “that was an adlib.”

But since we didn’t see the question, we don’t know what he’s referring to. I tried to follow the full feed with the hash tag but literally 100′s of tweets were scrolling in at a rate impossible to field.

So basically we had live blogging with the hype of Twitter – it didn’t work all that well.

By: Fox to muck up Glee tonight with Twitter like it did last night with Fringe

Fox to muck up Glee tonight with Twitter like it did last night with Fringe — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:00:59 +0000

[...] twitter takes up nearly the bottom third of the screen. It had to be distracting. Marketing Pilgrim has some great comments from its readers stating the solution: change the channel. But in case you missed the FAILfest last [...]

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:09:40 +0000

Hey everyone – Thanks for showing us the other side of the argument. I think this goes to show that people are real quick to voice their concerns over something negative but if it was good they don’t say anything unless prodded a little. Makes you think about social media and how important it is for brands to mobilize their evangelists to fight off the nay sayers.

Thanks again!
.-= Frank Reed´s last blog ..Losing Touch Could Mean Losing A Lot =-.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:04:07 +0000

While I can understand the complaints, I agree with Aprille — I loved it. This was a repeat, geared towards fans of the show. This was not intended for someone who’d never seen it, much like Pop-Up Video. If I’d never seen the episode, it would have driven me crazy, but I loved the insight from the cast and producers and I loved be able to interact. I wish the display area had been a little smaller (and the text a little bigger, it was impossible to read for someone with a pretty small, older TV), but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think with some adjustments Fox can make it work.

By: TwisterMc

TwisterMc — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:15 +0000

It's not like the episodes were new, they were rebroadcast. I think it's cool to see the mix of social media and live TV. Kind of like Pop-Up Video on VH1. .-= TwisterMc´s last blog ..Lily’s Monkey Painting =-.

By: Aprille Byam

Aprille Byam — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:42:48 +0000

I wonder how representative the feedback is, though. Personally, as a Fringe fan who remembered the episode and is into digging for clues on shows like Fringe & Hero w/ additional hints & backstory elements, I thought it was awesome. Just the repeat would have been a snooze I may not have watched. The interplay of the characters and the other guys w/ each other and the audience, plus their feedback on dets of certain scenes and hints about the new season was very cool.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:00 +0000

OK, here’s one–anonymized and sanitized:

“get your ******** conversation off my tv. this is the last episode of fringe i will be watching if i see any more damn twittering on it. ”

I’m guessing the sentiment on that one is negative.

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:22:03 +0000

@Andy Do tell! Well, while informal it looks like our snapshot of this deal is pretty conclusive. Keep your tweets off the TV (at least during Fringe )
.-= Frank Reed´s last blog ..Losing Touch Could Mean Losing A Lot =-.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:16:31 +0000

And those were tame! We’d need an R-rating to show you the ones that found their way to my inbox!