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

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.

In my copious spare time I’ve invented two Twitter-based games. The first, TwitLyrics, is a game for one (but everyone else has to watch, obviously). The rules are easy. Simply twitter your favorite lyrics, replacing words with ‘Twitter’ or ‘Tweet’ to taste.

I suggest only doing this once a day to avoid being bludgeoned to death by irate Twitter followers.

There’s no winner (only losers!).

I played all last week. Here’s what I came up with…

Tuesday

The moment i wake up / before i put on my makeup / i tweet a little tweet for you

Wednesday

but i would tweet 500 times / and i would tweet 500 more / just to be the man that tweets 1000 times / to fall down at your door

Thursday

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end / To be stuck inside of Mobile / With the Twitter blues again

Friday

Alison, I know this world is killing you / Oh, Alison, my tweet is true

I’m grateful to follower @mweller, who responded to this last one with:

@andypowe11 - ‘Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from tweeting/ when I hear the silly things that you say’ (not really of course)

which put me fairly and squarely in my place. I’ll get my coat…