"The Real World D.C." cast officially arrived Thursday at its new Dupont Circle residence for taping of the MTV reality program. The young people came in separately to their television group home along S and 20th Streets in Northwest D.C.
The would-be reality television stars were greeted not only by Real World cameras though but by an unofficial contingent of bloggers, tweeters and a reporter from WUSA/9. Lindsey Mastis' own efforts at taping footage from the site were marred by an overzealous "Real World" production crew as documented on WUSA/9 and YouTube.
The MTV/Bunim-Murray production is now having to deal with the age of new social networking technology. The growth of outlets like Twitter will make it increasingly difficult for any television operation that has to tape in the actual real world to keep its secrets intact.
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