Comments on: Twitter Man, thank goodness you came!

By: Wolfshead

Wolfshead — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:22:14 +0000

My time spent playing in MMOs is sacred to me. Having any kind of mechanic that disrupts that immersion is just wrong. I wasn’t a big fan of Brad McQuaid when he invented the /pizza command in EverQuest. I also hated it when people could play .mp3′s in EQ too.

Now Twitter?

That’s crossing a line in the sand for me. What’s next people will start having their vitals hooked up to their computers so the public can view their heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature?

By: Kristine

Kristine — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:05:35 +0000

I am sure that if people cant find anything useful or distinct about twitring in-game, then they wont use it. Simple as that. If it doesn’t have some kind of edge on other types of communication it wont be used.

Moral of the story: Have faith in the users!

We see that users (and gamers in particular) are very creative and keep finding new ways to use applications and hardware. The modding community is a prime example of this. I am waiting in suspense on how gamers find ways to use twitter to enhance their game.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:22 +0000

I enjoy Twitter and I’m pretty big into it (http://twitter.com/WeFlySpitfires if you wanna be my buddy!) but I wasn’t sure about this addition to Champions Online. The whole point about Twitter to me is that you get to see other people’s tweets – without that, it’s just like spamming random comments with no feedback.

Might be a very clever move from Cryptic though as they essentially get free advertising without thousands of people twitting about their game, from their game.

By: krizzlybear

krizzlybear — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:27:25 +0000

WOOT! Another added to my twitter.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:57:04 +0000

I definitely see it as a good thing, to be honest. Yeah, you could accomplish the same thing by alt-tabbing and Tweeting in a traditional way, but this will just be more convenient. I like convenience.

Twitter is a funky beast and it seems to take a lot of people a few gos at it before it clicks. It has this bad reputation for being about “I’m going to eat a donut now” nonsense, and while there is some of that, to me it’s an awesome communication tool that combines the best aspects of IM & RSS.

But I’ll admit I tried and left Twitter twice before I got it. Until you find the right group of people to follow, it can feel pretty pointless.

And Longasc, someone (maybe Spinks?) Tweeted that you were on Twitter, so a lot of us familiar with your name from comments on blogs started following you. That’s how Twitter works, ideally. You follow a friend, who mentions other friends for you to follow, and they follow you back, then you see them having an interesting conversation with someone you don’t know, so you start following and replying to them, and suddenly you’re meeting a bunch of people with similar interests to yours.

I love it.

twitter.com/pasmith

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:39:27 +0000

I’m pretty much at the point that I want to strangle people who go out of their way to complain about Twitter. It’s as though they think that their complaints will drown out the increasing coverage of Twitter on the news or other sites. Grumbling about how much you hate the thing isn’t going to make it go away; it just makes you look like a whining luddite!

By: Syp

Syp — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:10:27 +0000

It’s like all the Whos in Whosville are tweeting about Christmas and I just want to steal their toys.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:50 +0000

Because of you, I am now on Twitter, too.
As “Longasc”, what else…

I already have 5 followers! I do not know how I got them, they have botlike names *PANIC*

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:47 +0000

Because of you, I am now on Twitter, too.
As “Longasc”, what else…

I already have 5 followers! I do not know how I go them, they have botlike names *PANIC*

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:32:04 +0000

Would be pretty good for someone to ping me and tell me to get online.