Posts Tagged ‘TwitStory’

TwitStory #3 - memories

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
http://twitter.com/photomatt

Finding it amusing and yet slightly disturbing that I recite the Patapon beats to any instrumental song I’ve been listening to lately.
http://twitter.com/courtneyp

Couldn’t resist stopping at an open house on my way home. Cute 3/2 a block from my place in noe. $1.2mil
http://twitter.com/andykaufman

waiting for train nj. Have to attend a wake for a member of my sister-in-law’s family.
http://twitter.com/gadgetboy

ok - spinning way too many plates - anysecond one is gonna slip and crash
https://twitter.com/debs

Great minds thought alike. That’s all I’m going to say on the matter.
http://explore.twitter.com/charles_hope

ok, its redbull time. im going to be up for the next three days straight.
http://twitter.com/kroosh

And with that, I am off to save the world.
http://twitter.com/kristiewells

Bummed. Found out that a friend passed away. I should have made more of an effort. : -(
http://twitter.com/BizGirl

Lost
http://twitter.com/memory

*achoo!* Ok, so maybe I’m not *entirely* over this cold thing yet..
http://twitter.com/encaf1

Memories!
http://twitter.com/chrisabraham

“I like llamas because of the way you spell their name” - yep OK, I admit, that was one of mine, how did you guess?
http://twitter.com/MelKirk

The Dutch are absolutely out of their minds. It’s awesome.
http://twitter.com/cubedweller

Ok. Now what?!
http://twitter.com/OldBroad

Twitter games #2 - TwitStory

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

My other Twitter-based game at the moment is slightly more elaborate. TwitStory involves using other people’s tweets as the basis for a short story.

Some terminology… ‘twitsurf’ is a verb meaning to browse Twitter by clicking on interesting looking pics in people’s ‘following’ list.

The rules for TwitStory are as follows:

  • Play using the Web interface to Twitter.
  • Find a starting point, e.g. by twitsurfing 5 or 6 times at random.
  • Copy and paste one of the tweets visible on the current page. (Optionally note down the Twitter name of the person who made the tweet).
  • Now twitsurf once or twice (your choice). Note that protected updates pages can be skipped over at no cost.
  • Copy and paste another tweet.
  • Repeat until you have up to 15 tweets that make a story.
  • Reaching a dead-end, i.e. a person with no followers, marks the end of the story.

I’ve tried this twice so far. Not sure about the results but, hey, I’ve heard of people doing stupider things on the Internet!

TwitStory 1 - Heading for Mexico

Pip is attempting to tell me that someone fell down the well. Unfortunately, she is no Lassie and her communication skills suck.I’m sweating and unhappy about that.

husband just got home

Annie is trying to figure out what the heck this thing is?

strange weather, thunder and lighting which sounds different to normal MCR thunder

wishes that global warming would stop melting all the snow around here so damned quickly.

LA is melting me

Unbelievable!!!

Dear God. I am so tired.

Feeling pretty sick today. This cold is a month late

Time to get me some L:Qdoba

going to hang out with my little sister.

Sweating in the windy city

Embarked and en route to Mexico on ship.

Closing out this “could’ve been worse” Monday, see you manyana amigos and amigas

TwitStory 2 - Tokyo angst

No I don’t have a gun.

God I hate this loft.

Back in Tokyo

ha ha ha ha ha. Now that’s classy!

My body arrives back tomorrow morning, the rest of me a little bit later

WTF is this about!??!

Wow, this is great stuff. An author torrenting his own stuff? Sweet!

Yes, I know I am going to hell

griping about the griping about the griping…

I’ve forgotten that sometimes I really do enjoy talking for four hours straight to complete strangers

Want to scream,

apparently complaining helps to motivate me. not good for others.

Is calling it a night.

Unfortunately, I didn’t record the TwitStory social path taken to make either of these stories.