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brianfalexander
· 3 months ago
My twitter feed got really full with all the tweets. It would not have been so bad if they hadn't have tweeted so much. I love the show, but don't care to see that many tweets about it. Seriously!
loganmarlowe
· 3 months ago
I've read a bit about this, and I watched the episode as well. Fans that were upset must have been "fans" who didn't see the episode the first time, or are unsavvy enough to know they can watch it online anytime they want. The point of this repeat was to see the tweets more than to see the show, IMO. That said, I was surprised to see that they had the tweets on the TV. I had assumed they would only be seen on Twitter, and had my laptop all set for that. The annoying thing for ME was that they tweets came faster on the TV than on my laptop. Not sure if that's because I use a third-party (TweetDeck). I'll see about that next week and just watch the tweets through the Twitter site itself. So...yes, it covered the screen a bit but we should've all see the show already, so wtf if the problem?
cgrymala
· 3 months ago
I couldn't agree with you more. To me, the concept of watching the "tweet-peat" was similar to the concept of watching a movie with the commentary enabled. You've already seen the show, and now you're interested in what the cast and crew have to say about it.
I think the "irked fans" completely missed the point of this broadcast.
telecomladyj
· 3 months ago
In all fairness, the DVD commentary doesn't cover the screen. I personally don't even care to watch a movie with subtitles all that often because you miss nuance onscreen while you're trying to read. I didn't see this broadcast, but if I was a fan- even if I had seen the episode- it would irk me too that the tweets covered some of what you're trying to watch.
Curtiss Grymala
· 3 months ago
The DVD commentary doesn't cover the screen, but it does completely block out the audio. It's the same basic concept.
Jeff Pomeroy
· 3 months ago
I've read about this today and the problem doesn't seem to be so much that they are displaying tweets - its just how to chose to display them. Because, remember, these are repeats. Heck, when Lost is shown on ABC and the episodes are meant to 'catch people up', there is a constant stream of information displayed in the bottom portion of the screen.
The manner in which Fox chose to display everything is bad - it shouldn't take up so much room. It should scroll across the bottom (bottom 1/5 of screen like Lost pop ups) and I doubt that they'd have this issue.
afthought
· 3 months ago
One of the most annoying aspects of TV viewing is the streaming promotions during a broadcast. How can streaming Twits be any less intrusive, interrupting the dramatic or comedic moment?
Graymalkin56
· 3 months ago
Glee tweets seem to be slightly less obtrusive, although closed-captioning has to be turned off because they overlay each other. The lower tweet is definitely smaller than in the Fringe experiment.
John Salcido
· 3 months ago
this issue could easily be fixed by making the Twitter portion smaller on-screen. Something like a scrolling news ticker would have been better.
bobduffy
· 3 months ago
Like watching a Black & White movie, at first it seemed odd and then you get used to it. I was really annoyed at first then I liked it. Felt connected to the cast. For a repeat I enjoyed this. But I agree, this should not be done for a first run.
optical
· 3 months ago
Pointless inanity made you feel 'corrected to the cast'? You're easily pleased.
Chris Bailey
· 3 months ago
@loganmarlowe has the measure of it. It was a repeat and intended to provide commentary on the episode. Jeez, folks just need to calm down a little. Fox tried something new...good for them. So rather than bitching and moaning, contribute to making things better. It sounds like Fox is continuing to experiment rather than pulling everything up at the roots to appease the twittering class. That's good to me.
susan
· 3 months ago
the most annoying part of the tweetpeat isn't the overlay - it's that it's only on the east coast. So, really no incentive for people in other timezones to tune in.... the fun was gone.
Stefanie
· 3 months ago
I watched last night's Fringe Tweet-peat episode and did find it pretty annoying, since it was pretty much my first episode of Fringe since the premiere. Fox should maybe catch reruns of Lost on ABC and the way they handle their commentary as a way to do it without interfering with the action on the screen.
Speaking of annoying distractions, is there any way for site visitors to turn off "Drag to Share" and the Meebo/Share Page toolbar. I don't see the purpose of the former, and don't use the latter. This strange interface also seems to have infected TechCrunch...
Thanks!
joe1929
· 3 months ago
No, No, No. Do NOT cover up the screen with pointless inane comments. If I wanted that, I’d be online tweeting. I don’t. The shows (Fringe and Glee) are unwatchable. If it broadcast, I won’t watch. I hope NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t follow this goofy example.
joe1929
· 3 months ago
No, No, No. Do NOT cover up the screen with pointless inane comments. If I wanted that, I’d be online tweeting. I don’t. The shows (Fringe and Glee) are unwatchable. If it broadcast, I won’t watch. I hope NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t follow this goofy example.
joe1929
· 3 months ago
No, No, No. Do NOT cover up the screen with pointless inane comments. If I wanted that, I’d be online tweeting. I don’t. The shows (Fringe and Glee) are unwatchable. If it broadcast, I won’t watch. I hope NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t follow this goofy example.
joe1929
· 3 months ago
No, No, No. Do NOT cover up the screen with pointless inane comments. If I wanted that, I’d be online tweeting. I don’t. The shows (Fringe and Glee) are unwatchable. If it broadcast, I won’t watch. I hope NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t follow this goofy example.
joe1929
· 3 months ago
No, No, No. Do NOT cover up the screen with pointless inane comments. If I wanted that, I’d be online tweeting. I don’t. The shows (Fringe and Glee) are unwatchable. If it broadcast, I won’t watch. I hope NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t follow this goofy example.
Name
· 3 months ago
DId not like at all and the re-run Glee wasn't any better. I'll have to stop watching if it continues - too difficult to concentrate - we have better things to do.
garricks
· 3 months ago
The "tweetpeat" idea is good, but the tweets should be more like DVD commentary...post info and reactions, and fewer "shoutouts" and chatting... Look at the LOST pop-up repeats for guidance.
lamapper
· 3 months ago
I agree with everyone that stated Lost did it right. And only as a means to catch people up who did not see every episode and to give an explanation of not only who some people were but the significance of an event. The way lost did it was great. Not the original broadcast, only on a repeat and a very limited space on the screen.
Considering how almost every station leaves up their intrusive banner that blocks the lower portion of the screen when covering news events and breaking stories does this really come as any surprise. I believe ABC has gotten intelligent about it, removing the big overlay and replacing it with a very small ABC icon on the right or the left that changes, rotates so that you do not burn an image into your screen, very smart.
Also frustrating is only seeing one side of a conversation or one part of a combination tweet, it would be better to keep the tweeting on the computer and off the TV screen. As for it being fast, for anyone throttled by the Cable provider it was agonizingly slow. Nothing new here, we all need a fiber connection to our home, period.
Dick Flanagan
· 3 months ago
Some people watch the show to <gasp> watch the show! If I want to read other people's comments about the show, I will go to another venue. For those of us who were unable to see the first run, the unbelievably annoying Tweets ruined this chance for us. I just hope that we will have a chance to watch it again without the Tweets.
adamsonx
· 3 months ago
I didn't even know that Fringe was still on TV - thought it got cancelled a long time ago.
Glee is a lame show anyways, they should take up all of the screen AND the singing, while they're at it...
Carol Phillips
· 3 months ago
I watched the Glee tweet peat tonight and found it distracting, even though I seen the episode earlier today on Hulu. I don't think it mixes well.
barbie_doll
· 3 months ago
It sucks. GET RID OF IT !!!!!!!!
acdoyle
· 3 months ago
Don't ever again try putting this twitter crap on the screen.
Jacqueline
· 3 months ago
Glee's are better. They're smaller on the screen and translucent so that you can actually see the show.
Noel Waters
· 3 months ago
I don't like tweets taking up my screen real estate, whether on repeats or first-runs. If Fringe keeps this up, I will simply stop watching.
Jeanine Vuozzo
· 3 months ago
I didn't like it on Fringe...and I don't like it on Glee Club. I have a computer for a reason. If I wanted to stare at Twitter I would do so on my computer. Take it off the TV. This is not what people want. We do not want to to see what people have to say while we are watching the TV.....
marie
· 3 months ago
get off my TV set - I can't concentrate on the show!
Dion Schottler
· 3 months ago
I agree stop already I just want to watch the show!
Name
· 3 months ago
I tried to watch the Glee pilot but had to change the channel after 5 minutes. They covered half the screen with annoying tweets of just nonsense. What is the point in watching the show when you cant even watch it... you just keep getting distracted with "Ryan Murphy directed this seen".... "Ryan Murphy directed that scene"...... "Oh yes... and remember when Ryan Murphy directed this scene too"!
Come on! You've got to be kidding me! Somebody, please, shoot the genius behind this master plan!
Robert N. Lee
· 3 months ago
I'm not sure how "experimental" it was. It strikes me that the first time I remember a network doing this with an IRC channel or something was back in the nineties, when dinosaurs coded.
And it was annoying and a bad idea then, too. Maybe when everybody's got hundred-inch widescreens or something.
Erik
· 3 months ago
Why would I want Tweets on my TV when I can check them out on a laptop, a PSP, a Blackberry, a cellphone and iPhone... etc... It's a horrible idea. Seriously, Twitter is starting to get so obnoxious I think I'm going to start slapping people who talk about it. Anybody who put 15 seconds of real thought into the idea should have been able to see it for the disaster it was.
Pyrogenic Media
· 3 months ago
In the world of digital tv. Couldn't they just make it like captions for the deaf? So that you can turn it on if you like it, or else just leave it be. Atleast then they would get a good size on the amount of people who actually care about having tweets blocking half the screen.
steveadams
· 3 months ago
WTF!!!!!!!!! 33% of my screen is gone!!!!! get that twit crap off my screen!!!!!!!!!
Marcel Messier
· 3 months ago
NO!
Brad F.
· 3 months ago
Wow. That was lousy! They should have implemented it as a sidebar. You have to wonder how some idiots get their job. The primary purpose of watching a TV show is to see the TV show, not see Tweets about the TV show. You can see that on your laptop.
Besides that, the better implementation would be to have shows where people can send Tweets with a certain hashtag and have them show up in a sidebar along the TV show occasionally, done live. That's much more engaging to the audience than having the cast blab on and on about crap mostly no one cares about.
loganmarlowe
· 3 months ago
The problem with the tweets rolling on the bottom is that they might be missed, and then the point of the experiment is lost. They won't be doing this with first-run episodes, so no worries there. One more week and it'll all be over.
michaeldurwin
· 3 months ago
Why don't they just run the Twitter commentary through Twitter for fans to follow on their laptops and cell phones? MTV used to do this with emails during TRL I think and it ruined the video watching experience. Of course MTV stopped being about the music video watching experience a decade ago so for them it was no big deal. But for Fringe, where every scene could hold a clue, not to mention Anna Torv's frosty-girl next door hotness.
swag
· 3 months ago
We've obviously learned nothing from NBC Internet.
Vinicius De Mello
· 3 months ago
dumb move!! Who's idea was that?!!!
Irritated Fringe Fan
· 3 months ago
'Tweet-peats' was a disaster, and it should not go forward in any format... revised or not. Twitter should be kept on the internet where it belongs, and not forced in front of us that are trying to simply watch a television show.
The 'tweet-peat' during the recent rerun episode of Fringe irritated me so much, that I called my local Fox station to complain, and I also sent an email to Fox corporate to let them know if that was the planned new format for the new season, I would be watching 'CSI' instead on their competitor's network. Fringe was completely unwatchable, as the mindless banter of the tweets obscured the entire bottom third of the screen.
We do not need to mix television with Twitter over ATSC channels, as both television and 'tweeters' have a domain already dedicated to each one of them individually. Having to deal with the banter of commercials is bad enough... and now they want to force the mindless banter of 'tweets' on our television viewing without any option to turn that banter off!
I can only hope that whatever financial incentive Twitter offered Fox to try this experiment, was less lucrative than retaining their regular viewers for whom they count on their ratings to sell commercial time during the show.
Karen Gorman
· 3 months ago
I loveeeeeeeeeeeee Fringe but if they are gonna put this tweet crapola on my tv- so I can't watch the show or concentrate on the story-I will QUIT WATCHING Fringe altogether! I have disabilities that this made impossible for me to watch this show! Now HEAR ME! How much do ya think I saw of the show with all the WEATHER ALERTS THAT ARE NECESSARY PASTED ON TV AND YOUR TWEET CRAPOLA? I taped the show and I still can't concentrate on it and have ran it back 4 times! DON'T FIX SOMETHING THAT AIN'T BROKEN! PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS! WE HAVE ENOUGH "CHANGE" GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY=MAHEM!
ghughe5
· 3 months ago
GOODBYE FRINGE! The inane/stupid/asinine tweets on last night's Fringe rerun is the last straw. I don't want unasked for tweets on my TV!
jrcamper
· 3 months ago
Get that twitter crap off the screen
Roco
· 3 months ago
I thought it was a good idea in principle, but the execution could do with a bit of work.
clarity
· 3 months ago
When I watch television, it's because I've chosen to taken computer/Twitter DOWN TIME. No need to combine the ignorance of people while I'm trying to enjoy my favorite shows or grab a show I missed the first time around. It's all about escapism. I turn OFF closed captioning because I despise READING my TELEVISION. Tweets distracted me completely and I never watched the rest of it. I hope Fox learns from this and cans this idea.
Name
· 3 months ago
The Twitter on screen made watching the episode unwatchable. I personally will tune out of any future episodes of any program that force feed unwanted narrative and distractions.
mark harrison
· 3 months ago
I am a huge Twitter fan but we really don't need it featuring on our favorite TV shows and it shows that the people making these decisions do not really understand social media to the extent that they think they do.
Dennis MAnning
· 3 months ago
Any script on the screen is distracting. My wife and I found the episode unwatchable. We turned it off. Any on screen messages are a distinct negative. The messages won't be made bearable by simply adjusting them. Continue the tweets and we will watch something else.
John
· 3 months ago
Whatever you want to call this screen-sucking B.S., stop it! It's bad enough this crap is causing car wrecks, because the politicos are too stupid to outlaw driving while texting / twittering, etc., don't screw up television. I still haven't gotten over the stupid network logo intrusions that now appear on the screen. Stop it! Stop it! stop it!
Marvin Waid
· 3 months ago
I hate it..who cares about what they are talking about..I'm trying to watch the show. That's like trying to drive, and you have writing right in front of you while you are driving...don't you find that distracting?...If they keep this up, I sure will not watch it in the future. It a great show..I sure hate to see them mess it up with that. I'm missing it now, so I can type this...so it got me away from the show, so I could type this. DO you get the hint?..Loose it.
ladyscrubber
· 3 months ago
We watch the show to watch the show. Enough of the TWIITS, we use close caption and now we can't. Now we can not see any of the screen. Technology is great but not the the tube. We want to see the tube not the TWIITS. It adds NOTHING to the experience of watching the show.
Name
· 3 months ago
Forget the Tweet crud and just run the program...both Fringe and Glee are GREAT shows and don't need that junk to distract the actual fans. They are risking a land-slide of negative feed-back.
danfoley
· 3 months ago
I really like Fringe and I Really like Twitter but I do not like Twitter on a television show like Fringe. I hope your experiment proved something. Don't do it. Under no circumstance do I want to see what Lotta Botox or Harry Butt thinks about the show while I'm watching it.
Diane
· 3 months ago
As a "true" fan of Fringe, I found the tweetering frustrating. I could care less what these people thought. This was not a good idea and hopefully you will discontinue doing this. The program was turned off when the tweet started.
Karenstemp
· 3 months ago
Was no one else annoyed at the sexist jokes about the one female lead? Is it a (little) boys club?
SLRK
· 3 months ago
I will never watch another Tweet Peak, it got under my skin. I did try but it didn't work.
boardbum
· 3 months ago
My wife and I were watching a rerun of Fringe and we could not even concentrate on the show do to the live twittering going on. This is BS. we turned off the show and will never watch it again. If some 20 something who is running FOX thinks this is the new wave of tv, then good luck on your ratings. I own a lap top and dont wish to turn my tv into one.
Jason Tucker
· 3 months ago
Let me turn off this tweet peet bull shit...it sucks!
Name
· 3 months ago
get the twitter off, it ruins the experience.
mchoice
· 3 months ago
Please get the twitter off my screen. It is the next thing to being robbed. A total absence of freedom. If it is on next week I will not watch Fringe again.
Darrel Whitehead
· 3 months ago
PLEASE do not ruin your good program with that stupid TWEET in the screen.
Name
· 3 months ago
@What they could do is do a full letterbox the show and run the tweets in the black space below the video. If you don't want the tweets, you zoon in with your HDTV, otherwise, you still see the whole image of the show. Thats not so hard to figure, now is it?
IRKEDFAN
· 2 months ago
I missed the first airing and thanks to some A-Hole had to turn off the tweet-peet. Not every fan can watch the show on the web. I can not and don't want to sit at my computer to watch a television show nor do I want to see crap from the web on my TV. If fans want to tweet then let them do it while watching the show on the web. BTW, there are those that need to watch using the closed caption and twittering fouls that up as well.
muri32
· 2 months ago
Totally turned me off. So much so that I am commenting! Frame the show or something else that doesn't impede the experience. Or better yet, make it an online only app!!
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That said, I was surprised to see that they had the tweets on the TV. I had assumed they would only be seen on Twitter, and had my laptop all set for that. The annoying thing for ME was that they tweets came faster on the TV than on my laptop. Not sure if that's because I use a third-party (TweetDeck). I'll see about that next week and just watch the tweets through the Twitter site itself.
So...yes, it covered the screen a bit but we should've all see the show already, so wtf if the problem?
I think the "irked fans" completely missed the point of this broadcast.
The manner in which Fox chose to display everything is bad - it shouldn't take up so much room. It should scroll across the bottom (bottom 1/5 of screen like Lost pop ups) and I doubt that they'd have this issue.
Thanks!
Considering how almost every station leaves up their intrusive banner that blocks the lower portion of the screen when covering news events and breaking stories does this really come as any surprise. I believe ABC has gotten intelligent about it, removing the big overlay and replacing it with a very small ABC icon on the right or the left that changes, rotates so that you do not burn an image into your screen, very smart.
Also frustrating is only seeing one side of a conversation or one part of a combination tweet, it would be better to keep the tweeting on the computer and off the TV screen. As for it being fast, for anyone throttled by the Cable provider it was agonizingly slow. Nothing new here, we all need a fiber connection to our home, period.
Glee is a lame show anyways, they should take up all of the screen AND the singing, while they're at it...
Come on! You've got to be kidding me! Somebody, please, shoot the genius behind this master plan!
And it was annoying and a bad idea then, too. Maybe when everybody's got hundred-inch widescreens or something.
Besides that, the better implementation would be to have shows where people can send Tweets with a certain hashtag and have them show up in a sidebar along the TV show occasionally, done live. That's much more engaging to the audience than having the cast blab on and on about crap mostly no one cares about.
The 'tweet-peat' during the recent rerun episode of Fringe irritated me so much, that I called my local Fox station to complain, and I also sent an email to Fox corporate to let them know if that was the planned new format for the new season, I would be watching 'CSI' instead on their competitor's network. Fringe was completely unwatchable, as the mindless banter of the tweets obscured the entire bottom third of the screen.
We do not need to mix television with Twitter over ATSC channels, as both television and 'tweeters' have a domain already dedicated to each one of them individually. Having to deal with the banter of commercials is bad enough... and now they want to force the mindless banter of 'tweets' on our television viewing without any option to turn that banter off!
I can only hope that whatever financial incentive Twitter offered Fox to try this experiment, was less lucrative than retaining their regular viewers for whom they count on their ratings to sell commercial time during the show.
The inane/stupid/asinine tweets on last night's Fringe rerun is the last straw.
I don't want unasked for tweets on my TV!
Stop it! Stop it! stop it!
That's like trying to drive, and you have writing right in front of you while you are driving...don't you find that distracting?...If they keep this up, I sure will not watch it in the future. It a great show..I sure hate to see them mess it up with that. I'm missing it now, so I can type this...so it got me away from the show, so I could type this. DO you get the hint?..Loose it.