Too much information?
Published February 10th, 2007 in Blogging.I’ve recently begun to see the Twitter widget in the sidebar of blogs here and there, and like this post at Lifehack.org, I have wondered why. Why do I need to know that people are doing right now? Why do I need to know that KCtheStickle is watching QVC right now, or that jaydblackman is still sick with a stomach flu? As if bareing one’s soul blogging isn’t enough, now people can publish on that blog exactly what they’re doing every other minute. Are we that desperate to connect with others… to be known and understood… to tell the internets every detail of our lives? Lifehack had some creative, out of the box suggestions about how to use Twitter productively, but for now I’m still thinking it’s just too much information. What do you think?
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Well, we use Twitter a bit differently.
We have created an online puzzle/maze game where users can create their own levels and publish them online. Once published, users can download the game itself - and any of the published levels to their mobile phones and play whenever they want.
Twitter is being used as a notification tool: each time a user (who has a Twitter account and has enabled the notification option in our Level Editor) creates and publishes a level, their Twitter friends get notified of it, and get a direct link to download the level to their mobile phone.
We are still conjuring up new ideas on how to integrate Twitter into more functions in our game, but this is a cool first step. Anyone who wants to test the game, feel free to visit at http://www.nbw.nu/ninja … and yes, the game is free, even the mobile version. The online Level Editor is built using Flex, the mobile game is a MidP 2.0 java app. PC and Mac versions of the game are underway. Enjoy!