Not even Sh@tn3r could save it

Another promising start comes to an end

May 16, 2011 at 1:44PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Twitter-based show yanked, Shat free to appear in "Crap T.J. Hooker Says to Vulcans" or something else that recognizes his eminent status.

For some the controversy concerned its name; for others, its origins. it was a show based on a Twitter feed. Not the richest vein to tap. It's possible people tuned in because they hardly knew anything about twitter, and were disappointed to learn the show did not have 140 characters.

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