Using a tweet as a nine iron
June 11, 2010 1:48 PM Subscribe
Twirdie allows you to play golf via twitter. Type a word and swing: the strength of your shot is proportional to the number of times the word has been tweeted in the last 20 seconds. A project of Twitter game outfit Local No. 12, whose SXSW presentation "Playing with 140 characters" is available here. (Via the just-concluded 2010 Games, Learning and Society conference here in Madison.)
And an eagle on the second hole with "football" followed by "mexico" followed by "rsa"
posted by Nothing... and like it at 1:53 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by Nothing... and like it at 1:53 PM on June 11, 2010
what the hell poop bieber
5 swings, 5 misses. Obviously broken.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:58 PM on June 11, 2010
5 swings, 5 misses. Obviously broken.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:58 PM on June 11, 2010
I dunno. seems busted to me - all my world cup worlds aren't doing anything. 0 yards for france?
posted by GuyZero at 1:58 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by GuyZero at 1:58 PM on June 11, 2010
I scored with meta penis!
posted by cjorgensen at 2:03 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by cjorgensen at 2:03 PM on June 11, 2010
Always drive with "lol".
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:07 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:07 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
um it's not working for me. "the"? really? nothing at all? isn't something supposed to happen?
posted by scrowdid at 2:12 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by scrowdid at 2:12 PM on June 11, 2010
It's busted, unless it's farming tweets from something other than English twitter
posted by Think_Long at 2:28 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by Think_Long at 2:28 PM on June 11, 2010
I can't wait until somebody invents a horse racing game for Twitter. They could call it Twat.
posted by Afroblanco at 2:29 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by Afroblanco at 2:29 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]
I can see them filtering out stop words like 'the' so that's not really a great test word.
What is probably happening is that they're getting rate-limited on their API calls by twitter and don't bother to check the difference between an error and a search that return no results.
posted by xorry at 3:03 PM on June 11, 2010
What is probably happening is that they're getting rate-limited on their API calls by twitter and don't bother to check the difference between an error and a search that return no results.
posted by xorry at 3:03 PM on June 11, 2010
"RT" seems to be overkill.
posted by brundlefly at 4:05 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by brundlefly at 4:05 PM on June 11, 2010
I hit Keanu Reeves on the head.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 4:26 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 4:26 PM on June 11, 2010
I thought it was fun! Although I played on Friday night and delighted in playing words like dude, drunk, cab, work, wasted, and wut.
posted by troublewithwolves at 10:08 PM on June 11, 2010
posted by troublewithwolves at 10:08 PM on June 11, 2010
Needs to be re-scaled. The obvious hot topics I tried ("usa", "england", "iphone") made the ball go all the way off the screen to the right. More frustrating than fun at this point.
posted by spitefulcrow at 10:12 AM on June 12, 2010
posted by spitefulcrow at 10:12 AM on June 12, 2010
I think the point is to try to choose words that are hot but not THAT hot. Therein lies the skill.
posted by escabeche at 5:30 PM on June 12, 2010
posted by escabeche at 5:30 PM on June 12, 2010
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posted by Nothing... and like it at 1:51 PM on June 11, 2010