Twitter shook up our holiday weekend on Memorial Day releasing information about a Twitter television show in the works.  Twitter announced a lightweight agreement with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment to develop a ‘reality TV’ drama with the aim of putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities using Twitter in a competitive nature. 

Twitter users have already voiced their disdain over the idea.  A popular hashtag is #nothanks and also the new Twitter account @No_tweet_show.  The @No_tweet_show account got nearly 500 followers in the first hour and is now over 1000 supporters.  

Even the celebrity Twittershpere is voicing out against the proposed show.  The notorious @aplusk, also known as Ashton Kutcher who is a very popular actor in Hollywood tweeted this about the breaking news on Monday. 

Ashton even talked about taking a Twitter hiatus because of the possible new reality TV show. 

This seems like a bad deal all around.  The celebrities aren’t happy because it encourages creepy and reckless behavior around them.  The ‘techies’ on Twitter are not happy because it only furthers what they see as mainstream exploitation.  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone better kill this idea and keep Hollywood from trying to cash in on Twitter’s explosion.  If they don’t, they are likely to have a ‘Facebook-like’ situation on their hands much like Mark Zuckerberg did with the recent Facebook face lifts or like beacon many years ago. 

The premise of the show is complete stupidity.  Stalking celebrities like it’s a game.  That’s all we know at this point, they aren’t releasing many details on the actual format of the show.  A large core of Twitter users are impressionable younger teens, especially those who follow these celebrities and look up to them. 

The only reasons shows like this are so popular right now it budgetary concerns.  Production companies are slashing budgets by millions.  A television drama like Grey’s Anatomy or Desperate Housewives can cost between 1.7 and 2.2 million an episode.  A reality TV show usually ranges around 750,000  per episode.   So this onslaught of ridiculous television series won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Twitter already suffers from server issues.  If your a regular Twitter user I’m sure you’ve seen the ‘We’re over capacity’ error screen.  How do they feel they can sustain hundreds of thousands if not millions of more tweets with prime time boobtube exposure? 

Hey Biz, if everyone is saying no, don’t ignore them and say ‘YES!’