The Providence Performing Arts Center recently made news for allowing 10 to 20 “Tweet Seats” in the back of the audience where patrons can post their 140-character thoughts and feelings about the show in real time. Although stories of Tweet Seats have been recently bustling on the Internet this phenomenon which so blatantly denies the very commonplace notion of turning off one’s cellphone before a play has been in practice since Twitter began to gain its mainstream mass appeal. In 2009 the Broadway revival of Godspell for example chose 15 of its most dutiful Twitter followers and gave them ...