Ashton Kutcher "Threatens" The World With His Silence
This morning, as I'm sure you've heard, the world was rocked by the news that a stupid-sounding TV series was in the works. The subject of this stupid-sounding TV series? A stupid social networking site, namely, Twitter. (And anyone who uses/has ever used Twitter will tell you, it is stupid first, everything else second.)
Maybe it's because I'm not an active Twitter user, or maybe it's because the show sounds like one of those terrible TV ideas that disintegrate upon hitting television's atmosphere and never actually come to fruition, like the American AbFab or Grey's Anatomy, but hearing about Twitter: The Series didn't give me convulsions of pure rage. Sure, the show sounds idiotic—like MTV's eye-glazer The Phone crossed with a CNN inane news ticker—but there are cheaper, dumber, lamer things out there. After all, Next still exists.
But recent developments have caused me to change my mind entirely:
Ashton Kutcher — Twitter's top tweeter — warned he may pull the plug on his tweeting if the micro-blogging service partners on a reality TV show….