Whose Tweet? Another Social Game Based on the Twitter API

March 2nd, 2009

By Christopher Mack

Twitter has an API, followers, messaging, and social promotion. So why isn’t Twitter used as more of a social platform for games?

Well, more are coming. Mappdev has recently released a beta version of a Twitter-based game dubbed, “Whose Tweet?”

The game is extraordinarily simple. When you start, you shown 20 random status messages one at a time. With each message, you are given a choice of six of the people you follow on Twitter, and the objective is to connect the message with the proper person. Once you have completed all 20, you are presented with your score that you are able to publish to your Twitter feed.

As you can imagine, the game has limited entertainment value, and relies heavily on following enough people on Twitter to be challenging. However, Mappdev says Whose Tweet is, more or less, an “experiment in social games for Twitter.”

This particular title is actually based on a different game (built by the same people) called The Status Game on Facebook. It will be interesting to see if there are actually Twitter users interested in a game.

Considering the increase in Twitter for social and casual games (i.e. Twoof), a “yes” is possible, but it will take time to know if this spike will stick or if it is just a fad.

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2 Responses to “Whose Tweet? Another Social Game Based on the Twitter API”

Clint Fralick Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Timing is going to be everything here, I think. Right now, I would say that Twitters userbase is still small enough and esoteric enough that they’d rather make up their own organic games and memes (like the War of the Worlds live retelling that went around last year). Once it’s adopted a bit more by the mainstream, I think games like this will be far more common.
Twitter: Small Games for Simple Purposes Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
[...] this interesting title, from the same guys who created the early Twitter games of Pop Answers and Whose Tweet, shows that everyone most certainly does have a price [...]