New MTV Show Searches for a 'TJ' or 'Twitter Jockey'
by Gabrielle Dunn
posted Jun 14th 2010


The era of the MTV VJ is coming to an end.

The network is now looking for a TJ or "Twitter Jockey," a social media maven who will engage with the MTV audience and serve as a liaison between viewers and network executives.

Eighteen potential tweeters have been picked out by the network and its audience will select two more.





Over the course of the summer, the 20 hopefuls will compete in a series of online challenges that show off their unique personalities and how they would interact with MTV's Twitter followers.


On Aug. 8, five final candidates will compete for the position on a live show where fans will ultimately pick the one who gets the job.

While the new Twitter Jockey won't be on TV all the time the way VJs were, they will report on MTV events, such as the Video Music Awards in September, and appear on-air periodically.



Viewers can nominate themselves or their favorite Facebook friends for the position online starting today - http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/.


The MTV TJ will be based in New York and earn a six-figure salary.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/06/14/new-mtv-show-searches-for-a-tj-or-twitter-jockey/

Hopefully, this would give viewers a chance to tell MTV how they really feel about the current state of programming. Like instead of intelligent, cutting edge programming (that's actually related to music) that you don't have to be a teenage girl to enjoy (hence, why the Twilight movies have swept the MTV Movie Awards for two straight years), they rather air bottom-barrel scraping nonsense like Jersey Shore or The Hills.

Gabi Gregg Wins MTV's Twitter Jockey Contest
Aug 9, 2010
by Joyce Eng


VJs are so last century.

Meet MTV's first-ever TJ ("Twitter Jockey"): Gabi Gregg.



The 23-year-old won a nationwide vote Sunday to become the social-media face of the network. Gregg, who founded the fashion blog Young, Fat and Fabulous, will report on pop culture via Twitter, Facebook, blogs and the MTV site.


She will tweet primarily from http://twitter.com/mtvtj, but will maintain her personal account, http://twitter.com/gabifresh.


"I cannot express my gratitude in 140 characters," she tweeted Sunday. "I love all of you so much."




A Detroit native and current Chicago resident, Gregg graduated in 2008 from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she studied international relations and African-American studies.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Gabi-Gregg-TJ-1021646.aspx