Samsung Brings Twitter to TV: Introduces the Microblogging Tool to Its Set of Widgets
Imagine sitting on that couch on a lazy sunday afternoon watching your favourite tele series. Pictured? Now imagine tweeting about it from your television itself. Alright, I don’t know what you think of it but for me it’s really exciting. And the excitement is more so because this isn’t going to happen in the distant future but now!
In some exciting piece of news for Twitter buffs, Samsung has introduced Twitter to TV. This means you can now tweet via your TV. The brand has released a Twitter widget for use on its new network-enabled LED 6000, 7000 and 8000 series LCD screens, as well as the 6 and 7 series models.
This follows the March 2009 integration of Yahoo widget into Samsung’s internet enabled LED televisions. In March, Samsung released the first TVs with the embedded Yahoo Widget Engine. It basically consisted of a widget ’strip’ on which the apps would roll without interrupting the screen. The first apps consisted of Yahoo news, Flickr, YouTube, etc. Twitter now joins this brigade which can be used from the standard remote control via the Widget dock at the bottom of the screen.
From what I have read I think this is currently available only in UK if I am not wrong (can anyone confirm this?). And obviously, LED aren’t your regular television sets and are bound to be expensive. In any case given the shoddy state of Internet in India, this really isn’t big news for a lot of us. However, it opens up possibilities of new media integrating with traditional media. Imagine, watching an ad that you like, and then tweet about and thus share it with others while watching TV. It can become a measurement metric to marketing on traditional media somewhere in the future. And that’s why this piece grabbed my attention.
What do you think of it, and how do you think it can alter digital media marketing in the future.. if at all.
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Hi..twitter is really a great invention…