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Now, Twitter inspired TV drama!

CBS is set to make a new show based on social networking site Twitter.

Melbourne: American television network CBS is set to make a new show based on social networking site Twitter.The drama will narrate Justin Halpern`s experiences shared on the popular Twitter account @shitmydadsays.
Halpern had started Tweeting after moving in with his outspoken elderly father, reports the Age. Some Tweets read: "I didn`t say you were ugly. I said your girlfriend is better looking than you, and standing next to her, you look ugly." "A parent`s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed." Justin Halpern, has only tweeted just over 100 times but has already turned his popular feed (more than one million followers) into a novel that has made the New York Times bestseller list for non-fiction. Boston Legal star William Shatner is set to play the father in the new TV series . "I`m on CBS this fall. I just heard so I`m passing it on to you! My best, Bill," the Age quoted him as writing on Twitter. The comedy is tentatively titled `Bleep My Dad Says`. ANI