Twitter Experiment

30 Jul 2009 24 Comments

by Nikkiin tech Tags: , ,

It’s readily apparent from the list of people I’m following on Twitter that I rather like to follow fictional characters – in fact, 19% of the people I follow are fictional!  (Another 44% are celebrity types (mostly not-exactly-celebrities-but-I-don’t-know-them-anyway webcomic types), 11% are services like Best Buy tweeting me their flyer and the remaining 26% are people I do know.)  Believe it or not, I’m actually pretty choosy with the fictional characters I follow, though nothing would make me happier if someone would start up accounts for Sam, Jack, Daniel and Teal’c.  (And maybe Hammond and Janet as well… and Walter – Walter’s tweets would be pretty fun to write!)   I’d do so myself, but I’d rather read about them than write about them.  Whatever, I guess.

But, out of all the fictional characters I follow, my favourite ‘group’ has to be Jeph’s Questionable Content characters.  They talk to each other (and only each other) regularly, there’s no breaking of the fourth wall or out of character moments.  (As a runner up, I’ve got to say that WriteRCastle is pretty awesome – for one, Nathan Fillion is following him and, for two, Alexis will also tweet from that account.)

For whatever reason (I don’t understand myself either), that got me thinking… what if a small group of people got together and each made a Twitter account for someone they just made up.  You know, sort of like a RP but on Twitter?  Travis and I sort of started doing something to that effect – we both made accounts for two of our characters and started tweeting from them. But then we got bored and moved on after less than 100 tweets.   That is, less than 100 tweets between all four accounts.

So what I want to do is to try doing that again but with more people involved than just Trav and I (we’re evidently bad at motivating each other.  Probably because we’re both too lazy to even bother prodding the other person) and with brand new characters.  The only question is, how are we going to go about this?  Are we going to set this in the real world and just have ordinary people tweeting at each other?  Or is it going to be a different world altogether?  Are we going to set it up so that it is just a bunch of people using Twitter as, well, Twitter or in a more traditional RP sense?  (I say using Twitter as Twitter because, well, then what’s the point of using Twitter?)

Leave your thoughts in the comments and hopefully we’ll be able to get this thing up and running!

Unless, of course, the only person this amuses is myself.  In which case you all suck and I’m going to go play in THAT corner of the sandbox now.

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  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    Ha! I remembered.

    Anyways, I didn't quit out of bored. I stopped because I couldn't get the technical issues of multiple account management sorted out. I'm gonna start those back up eventually its like 5 or 6 on the list of things to do for the comic so pretty low priority until I have comics. I didn't bug you to update cause I assumed you wouldn't listen anyways and cause I was in a pissy mood regarding you and I don't really know why…

    so onto the idea. I'm a fan of it in concept, as this sorta elaborate fakery is something I enjoy. (e.g. The van zandts, original idea of to-action.com) But I don't know if I'm in on this. It sounds fun, but I don't know if I'd have any follow through on it.

    ps. You really need to fix you're main page babe. c'mon.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Huh, but it ain't hard with twhirl – each account has it's own little windowy thingy and all can be open at once.

    And, yeah, I figured you'd like the elaborate fakery part. It really is fun after all, XD

  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    Ha! I remembered.

    Anyways, I didn't quit out of bored. I stopped because I couldn't get the technical issues of multiple account management sorted out. I'm gonna start those back up eventually its like 5 or 6 on the list of things to do for the comic so pretty low priority until I have comics. I didn't bug you to update cause I assumed you wouldn't listen anyways and cause I was in a pissy mood regarding you and I don't really know why…

    so onto the idea. I'm a fan of it in concept, as this sorta elaborate fakery is something I enjoy. (e.g. The van zandts, original idea of to-action.com) But I don't know if I'm in on this. It sounds fun, but I don't know if I'd have any follow through on it.

    ps. You really need to fix you're main page babe. c'mon.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Huh, but it ain't hard with twhirl – each account has it's own little windowy thingy and all can be open at once.

    And, yeah, I figured you'd like the elaborate fakery part. It really is fun after all, XD

  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    Eh its ok, but I was having issues with twhirl in that it wouldn't launch properly so I could see the windows. so it kinda fell apart right there. It was really frustrating I ended up having to like rebuild the whole os to fix it. :/

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Oh, yeah, that sucks.

    Why is this typing in a serif font when the site is sanserif? I told disqus to mirror the site's presets!

  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    The problem must be on your end cause its all using the same font on my end. (safari) I dunno why it would do something else in other browsers though.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    dA does that to me as well. Are the dA boxes sanserif for you?

  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    yes. also on the subject of fake people to follow I'm following Shawn and Gus now, the lead characters on psych. :D Shawn is web 2 cause his user name is shawnspencr. Gus's handle was one clearly picked by shawn the character, cause its crutonbuster a play on the characters name which is a running gag.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Hee hee, nice!

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    Ha! I remembered.

    Anyways, I didn't quit out of bored. I stopped because I couldn't get the technical issues of multiple account management sorted out. I'm gonna start those back up eventually its like 5 or 6 on the list of things to do for the comic so pretty low priority until I have comics. I didn't bug you to update cause I assumed you wouldn't listen anyways and cause I was in a pissy mood regarding you and I don't really know why…

    so onto the idea. I'm a fan of it in concept, as this sorta elaborate fakery is something I enjoy. (e.g. The van zandts, original idea of to-action.com) But I don't know if I'm in on this. It sounds fun, but I don't know if I'd have any follow through on it.

    ps. You really need to fix you're main page babe. c'mon.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Huh, but it ain't hard with twhirl – each account has it's own little windowy thingy and all can be open at once.

    And, yeah, I figured you'd like the elaborate fakery part. It really is fun after all, XD

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    Eh its ok, but I was having issues with twhirl in that it wouldn't launch properly so I could see the windows. so it kinda fell apart right there. It was really frustrating I ended up having to like rebuild the whole os to fix it. :/

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Oh, yeah, that sucks.

    Why is this typing in a serif font when the site is sanserif? I told disqus to mirror the site's presets!

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    The problem must be on your end cause its all using the same font on my end. (safari) I dunno why it would do something else in other browsers though.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    dA does that to me as well. Are the dA boxes sanserif for you?

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    yes. also on the subject of fake people to follow I'm following Shawn and Gus now, the lead characters on psych. :D Shawn is web 2 cause his user name is shawnspencr. Gus's handle was one clearly picked by shawn the character, cause its crutonbuster a play on the characters name which is a running gag.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    Hee hee, nice!

  • http://www.to-action.com monoclelad

    I also found Lassie! yay. though I'm dissapointed that in his first two posts he hasn't mentioned one of his guns yet. :( He has an almost Navi-esque love of gun violence. thats why he's a cop. In one episode the criminal was foiled when Lassidor pulled a loaded handgun out of a bowl of pistachio nuts (sp?) sitting on his kitchen counter.

    Its ok though because he wouldn't pull his gun on a house cat. well unless it was approaching in a threatening manner. He probably wouldn't shoot it, unless it wasn't responding to his commands to stop, and he'd probably fire a warning shot first, try and scare the cat off. But thats really a case by case basis and I'm not comfortable making any decisions right now.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    XD

    Fictional characters are fun to follow :3

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    I also found Lassie! yay. though I'm dissapointed that in his first two posts he hasn't mentioned one of his guns yet. :( He has an almost Navi-esque love of gun violence. thats why he's a cop. In one episode the criminal was foiled when Lassidor pulled a loaded handgun out of a bowl of pistachio nuts (sp?) sitting on his kitchen counter.

    Its ok though because he wouldn't pull his gun on a house cat. well unless it was approaching in a threatening manner. He probably wouldn't shoot it, unless it wasn't responding to his commands to stop, and he'd probably fire a warning shot first, try and scare the cat off. But thats really a case by case basis and I'm not comfortable making any decisions right now.

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    I also found Lassie! yay. though I'm dissapointed that in his first two posts he hasn't mentioned one of his guns yet. :( He has an almost Navi-esque love of gun violence. thats why he's a cop. In one episode the criminal was foiled when Lassidor pulled a loaded handgun out of a bowl of pistachio nuts (sp?) sitting on his kitchen counter.

    Its ok though because he wouldn't pull his gun on a house cat. well unless it was approaching in a threatening manner. He probably wouldn't shoot it, unless it wasn't responding to his commands to stop, and he'd probably fire a warning shot first, try and scare the cat off. But thats really a case by case basis and I'm not comfortable making any decisions right now.

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    XD

    Fictional characters are fun to follow :3

  • http://anovelconcept.net aethre

    XD

    Fictional characters are fun to follow :3