Did the first use of Twitter on live TV in the UK happen this morning? These tweets by ITV presenter Phillip Schofield certainly suggest so:
I did tune in to “This Morning†for a few minutes after catching the first tweet. I didn’t see the actual moment of tweeting, though.
Schofield’s show is not one I usually watch (I’m clearly not the desired demographic); if nothing else his tweets captured another viewer, albeit for a fleeting moment :)
While there’s been plenty of talk about Twitter on TV recently (and also, enthusiastically, by Phillip Schofield), no one’s actually used it on live TV as far as I know.
If this were radio, it wouldn’t be the first use of Twitter in these islands (stretching geography a bit) – Irish radio presenter Rick O’Shea first experimented with Twitter on his live RTE2 radio show last year.