Social Television #TeleTweet Dania Souid: @DaniaSouid Alana Adler: @AlanaNAdler Jason Wettje: @jwedge310 Andrew Tredinnick: @tred_nation
Where do we see Social TV? Everywhere. https://dev.twitter.com/media/twitter-tv
Social Television Websites They're a lot of websites now that provide a live stream of Tweets and statistics per show. http://trendrr.tv/ http://www.socialguide.com/ http://www.tvgenius.net/socialtvstats/
Zeebox Zeebox: currently only in the UK but soon in the states you can see live streams mentioning the show live chat with friends use it as a remote. Click on the program on the zeebox app will change the channel on your TV tells you what your friends are watching. Gives extra information about television shows.
Alex Iskold-Founder of GetGlue "People love tv shows, movies, music, books - we wanted to make it easy to connect around their favorites." "Most interesting social aspect is a dynamic network, connections formed on the fly when people are watching the same show." "Stickers are the perks themselves. In addition, users get discounts, coupons, exclusives - all sorts of other cool things."
Extra Facts 77% use social media to show their love for the show 65% use it as a platform to save their favorite shows 35% use it to introduce shows to their friends 2010 Grammy Awards saw a 35% increase in viewership from 2009 The Super Bowl saw a massive engagement on Twitter. Setting a record for most tweeted Televised event and drew in the highest audience ever. Over 4000 tweets per second Compared to 3,283 tweets per second during the World Cup
General Facts and Satistics The most live tweeted or liked shows are also these “appointment viewed” shows. Like now the X-Factor, Fringe, South Park and Glee are the most tweeted daily. These are the shows people prefer to watch as they air. Mainly for the social scene. Viewers watch the live shows because they want to be a part of the social TV experience. Also as a way to avoid any “spoilers”