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.