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Space travel’s in my blood / And there ain’t nothing I can do about it / Long journeys wear me out but / I know I can’t tweet without it

the more i tweet you / the more i want you / somehow this feeling / just grows and grows

rise up this morning / smiled with the rising sun / three little birds / tweet by my door step

darling you got to let me know / should i tweet or should i go? / if you say that you are mine / i’ll be here ’til the end of time

well sometimes i go out, by myself, and i tweet across the water
and i read all the things, of what you’re doing, and in my head i paint a picture

i could have been someone / well so could anyone / you took my tweets from me / when i first found you
i kept them with me babe / i put them with my own / can’t twitter all alone / i’ve built my dreams around you

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.