Chitter.tv launches TV chat powered by Twitter

Watch TV and tweet about it

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Amsterdam | January 12, 2010

Social media pitch

Watch TV and tweet about it: www.chitter.tv allows you to watch television and post tweets at the same time. http://pressdoc.com/p/0000b5

Summary

A new webservice launches today which allows you to watch streaming television and simultaneously read and post tweets about the shows you're watching. Chitter.tv is a realtime backchannel with Twitter comments about TV-channels. Watch live music, news, sports and entertainment and see what others think about it. All in one page.

Details

A new webservice launches today which allows you to watch streaming television and simultaneously read and post tweets about the shows you're watching. Chitter.tv is a realtime backchannel with Twitter comments about TV-channels. Watch live music, news, sports and entertainment and see what others think about it. All in one page.

Viewers can engage with shows and with others while watching the same content. Chitter is the pulse of TV, it shows what people like and dislike, in realtime. It mirrors the public opinion about the news. It shows which music is popular and upcoming. It allows the emotions of a sport event to be shared with others. It's the perfect marriage between two of the most popular activities in modern life: television and Twitter.

Chitter aggregates TV channels from around the internet and mashes them up with Twitter. Channels include MTV, FOX News, Sky News, RAI and France24. In total, it has 27 channels from 6 countries (USA, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands). New channels are added every week. Chitter doesn't host the channels, but embeds existing internet content in a page and mashes that up with Twitter.

Relevant links

Chitter TV Homepage

Quotes

It's the perfect marriage between two of the most popular activities in modern life: television and Twitter.

— Vincent Verweij, founder of Chitter TV

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