TWEET: I am watching playboyTV.

funny shit. i wouldnt want that thing in my den.

When my friend had Boxee doing this, I stopped following him. Really, I don’t care if you’re watching reruns of Seinfeld or not.

Don’t really need it. Set up MythTV with a shell script that tweets what has been recorded.

i am so sick of twitter. seriously.

@bob: no, they’re called ‘cunts’

this is the stupidest thing i have ever heard of. WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT YOU ARE WATCHING? people are stupid.

television is meaningless. things like this tend to promote the idea that it somehow has meaning.

twitter is also meaningless. nobody cares what you are doing.

I think most of the negative people above are missing the point. I would think IBM is thinking more about Nielsen Ratings and that sort of thing. Nielsen spends a lot of money (they paid me $20 for one week) to have people fill out surveys of exactly what they watch that week. They then sell that data to the networks and advertisers who use it to see what are the most popular shows and advertise accordingly. Having exact data of what channels are being watched when, which commercials are being skipped over etc, could be very useful (read: valuable) to advertisers.

“Nielsen spends a lot of money (they paid me $20 for one week) to have people fill out surveys of exactly what they watch that week. They then sell that data to the networks and advertisers who use it to see what are the most popular shows and advertise accordingly. Having exact data of what channels are being watched when, which commercials are being skipped over etc, could be very useful (read: valuable) to advertisers.”
This is exactly the ‘best’ use. Nielsen relies on a ‘self-report’ model, which only appeals to a certian type of viewer. Twitter is almost invisible to the user, and therefore will appeal to ALOT more demographics. Valuable? Yes. Good? Not so much.