ROFL LABORATORIES: producer/director kim sherrell experiments with interactive ‘sit down’ comedy on twitter.
from the very beginning, we discovered that members of the community were tweeting stuff that other people on the network found incredibly funny. these comedic outbursts seem to occur as a group dynamic… almost like a tidal wave.
“we generated a pretty good wave of laughter last night! omg, i couldn’t believe how many funny responses happened. good times!” ~@kimsherrell
here are highlights from the episode entitled,
“you know you’re a twitter addict when ______________.”
“you think in 140 characters or less.” ~@drewmaniac
“you are already thinking about being the Fail Whale for Halloween.” ~@tjmartin
“you set the TweetDeck sound as a ringtone for your phone’s Twitter alerts.” ~@moearora
“you verbally call someones name along with the @ sign in front of it.” ~@JussThatHost
“your new bride sends you this text message on your honeymoon night: ‘come to bed’” ~@fishfire
“you ‘follow”‘strangers off the street…no wait, that makes you a stalker.” ~@kstew
“you say ‘LOL’ in a face 2 face convo.” ~@joslinjewels
“you are driving 100 mph on motorcycle doing wheelie while tweeting on your Blackberry!” ~@nationwideclass
“you have 3 different twitter apps on your phone, just in case 1 doesn’t work.” ~@Tamour
are “having dreams about tweeting. I’ve done that before… : )” ~@rosiesd
“there’s a dent in your iPhone on the refresh tweets button.” ~@AmberAusten
“you get ‘rate limit exceeded’ at least once every day…” ~@AmberAusten
“you talk to your spouse thru twitter + his ass is in the same room as you, just for the thrill of the tweet”~@ImStillToni
“you hear the tweetdeck sound and you’re nowhere near a computer.” ~@stevenpitts
“when you use #hashtags in regular conversation” ~@matthewclower
“you’re laying in bed, still giggling about a previous tweet.” ~@nationwideclass
“you have 300 unread twitts and you are afraid not to read them.” ~@echoes4ever
“you turn the computer off, go to bed then have to turn ur iPhone on and go on tweetie.” ~@varicool
“you think of something and run to type it in on your computer!! LOL” ~@Missy220
“we wake up thinking do i have any @ replies and get mad if we do not! Needing our fix!” ~@AngelG76
“you type the @ in front of your friend’s names in emails and blog posts.” ~@mklopez
“you use it to run for Congress! #CA10.” ~@adrielhampton
“you have secret plans to tweet something hilarious the next time you are depressed.” ~@kimsherrell
“you start saying ‘tweeple’ instead of ‘people’ in speech.” ~@BoltClock
“you try to manage your addressbook in TweetDeck” ~@matthewclower
“you’re dreaming that you’re tweeting, then you wake up to find that you’re tweeting!” ~@richardstafford
“the only things your parrot says are what you’ve tweeted.” ~@BoltClock
“you start referring to your children as @’s and tell them 2 leave DM?” ~@nationwideclass
“you count @the_real_shaq, @iamDiddy, and the @Zappos CEO as friends.” ~@bapple999
“you tweet throughout your month long trip in the Carbbean and South Beach! LOL!” ~@LoriMoreno
“you say good night several times b4 u actually crash.” ~@lauratoogood
“you sit at your computer instead of being a couch potato” ~@MarcoBreadMan
“wake up in the …nite and see crackberry blinkin and wonder who your friends are!” ~@PaulaMonthofer
when “you’re trying to go to sleep but you’re still Twittering. Man it’s late.” ~@blancameneses
“you know more people as ‘@name’ than those without twitter accounts.” ~@GeekMommy
“you get bored and start @replying to your own tweets.” ~@raum
“you skip sleep time.” ~@CaptainFrog
“you spend all your time making small talk via 140 char. Per thought.” ~@AngelG76
“you can fill in the blank. The reason doesn’t matter.” ~@CarlyonAsia
“you begin regular SMS text messages with ‘d
“first & last thing you do every day is catch up on it” ~@abbashaiderali
“you start typing in 140 characters in Facebook.” ~@blancameneses
“you think, talk, and e-mail in 140 characters or less.” ;) ~@ vickisalemi
“you reply to this tweet by calling it a tweet.” ~@ajrowley
“you follow Kim Sherrell!?!” ~@martinbcrane
“you’re talking about being a twitter addict for more then 30minutes.” ~@AskDayton