Comments on: How Socializing Can Be a Boon to TV

By: James Huffman

James Huffman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:10:07 +0000

Chris makes several great points here about socializing TV, but I feel does get one thing wrong.

At TVLoop, we have 200+ TV applications on Facebook, with 17+ million users. These users are actively engaged in socializing around TV, but always asynchronously. As people become used to the asynchronous nature of social networks, they don't seem to find it odd to respond hours later to a post.

We integrate TV watching into our applications, and most users post immediately after they view the show, whenever that may be. In fact, we experimented with a live chat system early on, but its extremely low usage caused us to pull it, at a time when usage of all other features of the applications was growing.

James Huffman Community Manager TVLoop

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TVloop Blog - Discussing TV and Social Media — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:37:56 +0000

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