There will finally just be a TV show about Twitter
After years of television mining Twitter accounts for inspiration and making programming decisions based on trending hashtags, it’s only inevitable that someone would get around to making a show about Twitter. That someone is Lionsgate, who announced today that it’s developing a series adaptation of Nick Bilton’s Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal, the tale of how four guys in Silicon Valley made sure that an entire generation poured its every creative thought into creating free content for their website, and enabled it to insult public figures from behind the safe anonymity of the Internet—and then, somehow, bad feelings developed.