Rove calls it quits, forever
Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 9:15 pm by Jason Cartwright
It’s a sad night for Australian television with our most famous late night talk show Rove calling it quits forever. McManus says, after 10 great years, it’s time to move on and see what’s next.
Personally I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the show and appreciate the continued efforts to keep it fresh with new segments, casts and sets over the years. By far the most enjoyable part of the show for me was the guest interviews. Rove has always had an interesting way of extracting the most out of people, making it interesting and engaging for viewers.
After the shock announcement on the show, Rove quickly the top Trending Topic. After watching the reaction on twitter, it seems the general reaction is disappointment.
Thanks for a great show Rove.
Rove talks twitter, will it go mainstream in Australia ? (updated)
Posted Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 9:03 pm by Jason CartwrightTonight in front of a prime time TV audience of a couple million Australian’s, Rove McManus discussed “This new thing called twitter.”
Clearly they’re knowledge of twitter is extremely limited, especially given that Rove McManus, Carrie Bickmore, and Peter Hellier all have twitter accounts with 0 updates.
It seems the only cast member who does actively use twitter - Dave Hues (@DHughesy) is only on Rove every second week in 2009. Unfortunately he wasn’t on this week to discuss twitter. I’ve suggested he should bring up twitter next week.
I found the the discussion really disappointing, with Rove’s explanation being basically.. “first there was myspace, then facebook and now for people who can’t even be bothered with that there’s Twitter.” The discussion was really only surface-level deep, explaining that you basically follow what people are up to (i.e. what they’ve had to eat.). Sorry but there’s so many more great reasons to use twitter. A few of those being crowd sourcing answers, finding jobs, product / service promotion, developing community following, or simply doing business. A great example being Dell attributing over $1Million dollars worth of sales to twitter in 2008 [link].
Despite this, tonight’s discussion it’s likely to be the first of many on Australian TV, so expect to see a lot more Australian’s on twitter.
Remember a lot of new users will be trying to understand the true benefits of twitter, so please help them understand the many, many uses that we all know and love.
Naturally twitter is alight with buzz around the topic, you can watch the discussion here – http://search.twitter.com
