Twitter Reality TV Series on the Way, Outrage Follows

Some bad things are inevitable, but that doesn’t make them any less depressing when they happen.

Consider: Twitter’s epic growth has inspired some artists to come up with nifty projects to explore the service. Alas, others with even bigger checkbooks have also heard a thing or two, and a few of them have now decided to make a new reality series that will apparently set ordinary Twitter users on a real-time search for celebrities.

A producer claims the show will be “a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.” Details are thin, though even the people at Twitter, who aren't behind the series but agreed to let it go ahead, seem to recognize that it sounds pretty dismal.

Yet as most sane people prepare to ignore the show, some bleary-eyed Twitter activism has come into the fold, led by one Ashton Kutcher. “It's all fun and games until somebody gets stalked,” he tweeted Monday night. (He doesn’t seem to mind those 1,918,168 followers, of course.)

Let the gasping, real-time outrage begin. In fact, send your thoughts our way, if you wish.