*** Reader Advisory: DC SocialPulse Contains
Adult Language. Viewer Discretion is Advised. ***
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Welcome again to DC SocialPulse and our look at Episode 8 of Real World Ex-Plosion. Last week, Cory's ex Lauren left San Francisco after a positive pregnancy test, while Arielle & Ashley C. get into it and get real. We saw Doug make an appearance again, while a wild guys' night out led to Brian having more fun than he was supposed to.
Episode 8, entitled "Betrayed and Beatdown", is probably in my opinion the best episode of this season to date, of course until next week. After Jenny finds out about Brian cheating, things will obviously get very tense when she seeks some revenge. Elsewhere, Jamie stirs up some drama with Jay and Jenna when she spills a secret on them, while Hailey looks for someone new.
Now before we get to this week's diary, with the success I've had on here blogging since I began this hobby nearly a year ago, what inspired these SocialPulse diaries that I do? Well, in addition to recognizing the fact that not all of the twitter world can experience the true communal social TV experience thanks to something called time zones, during Challenge season one of my fellow followers who is a Challenge fan and a blogger himself, David J. Bloom (@DavidBloom7), occasionally posts on his Culture Challenged blog (http://www.culturechallenged.com) a running diary of key Challenge episodes as they occurred on TV.
Well, as a compromise that I made to myself to try to not tweet or RT as much as I've had in the past since I joined twitter last year and try to not lose followers, and inspired by those retro running diaries, I developed DC SocialPulse as a way to showcase the twitter dialogue of these episodes as the cast, fans and I saw it, while not sacrificing followers because of me flooding their timelines. And it's also a public service to all viewers including those on the west coast, so they don't get left behind on the twitter interaction. As I say, you don't have to scan through after you've seen the episodes, I will take care of the task so you don't have to.
Yes, it is a large, gargantuan task of copying & pasting tweets onto my iPad notepad and then pasting them onto my blogger app afterwards with my original commentary before & after. Plus, there's me doing it two times a week with not just this Real World but also Are You The One?, and I'll be doing it again for the upcoming Challenge. But, as I wrote in the AYTO SocialPulse post last night, the work has been nothing but worthwhile in bringing a great deal of traffic these last few months.
So David, thanks for giving me the inspiration for DC SocialPulse, and we can't wait to cover this season's Challenge. Get set, bud.
Moving on now, our usual reminder that there's adult language in some tweets below, but I am keeping it uncensored in order to retain the heat of the moment. So if you are mature enough, please read with discretion. :-) And when you join us after the jump, not only did we include the Tuesday tweets from the cast, but also some from some of their fellow alumni, flying out to Los Angeles for After Shows for the upcoming Challenge, a preview of what's coming up as soon as this Real World wraps up.
