Facebook Got a Movie, Twitter Gets a TV Show

When Twitter first came into being, it was basically just Facebook Light. You told people what you were up to, only you did it in fewer words.

It's kind of ironic, then, that the opposite relationship exists between these two social media giants in the world of film and television. They made the story of the founding of Facebook into a relatively brief 121-minute film, but they're going to make the story of the founding of Twitter into an entire TV show of indeterminate length.

The "they" in question here is Lionsgate TV, which has purchased the rights to the book Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton and hired Hunger Games producer Allison Shearmur to develop it into a TV series. And just so you know, I'm not the only one drawing the comparison between the Facebook movie and Twitter TV show.

Here's what Shearmur herself had to say about the project:

Hatching Twitter will go behind the scenes of a groundbreaking Silicon Valley company in a way that's never been captured before on television. The Social Network was a perfect film, and this series will be different, providing a longer view of the work lifechanges, gamesmanship and personal sacrifices made by a group of individuals who are building a company that will change the way that people communicate.

There's no word yet on where or when the show will eventually air. But don't worry about that right now. Just go and tweet this post out to all your followers, will you?

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