Twitter (Adver)games
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The ongoing puzzle at @Resistance2018 (promoting the new Terminator movie) is probably the first -- and excellent -- attempt at advergaming on Twitter, but I'm anxious to see how people will explore the potential of this new medium further. While Resistance2018 is not really an ARG, it's easy to see how Twitter will become another tool for ARG gamemasters, like those behind the new rumored (but possibly unofficial) Lost game unfolding over at @Simeonhobbes.
@eamobile, a community manager for EA, experimented with a battleship game on his account.
I really like the idea of making Assassin-like games (@assn).
I found a couple of people who are trying to use Twitter as a Zork engine, for example: @zorker and @zorkgame. Once you get this technology going, you can use it for a bunch of other stuff, like, I don't know, new employee orientation (I always wanted to do an employee-based text adventure).
Some other people are trying to play a TwittRPG. And a @textadventure.
Also, there are a couple of related articles on Mashable and AdFreak's TweetFreak, too.
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2 comments: Responses to “ Twitter (Adver)games ”
By shinn on 25/6/09 7:10 PM
I think twitter is getting overwhelmed by ads now... Companies are all of a sudden jumping into the social media bandwagon without even planning their strategies.
By Rebeca on 17/9/09 7:45 AM
Tech Crunch reports that Twitter is about to sign a contract to take an investment of $50 million that would value the company at $1 billion. On a per-user basis, that valuation would make Twitter worth 1.5 times more than Facebook. And that would be a nice payday for the earlier Twitter investors.