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.) posted by escabeche (20 comments total)
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Heh. Just got an eagle on the first hole with "france" followed by "uruguay". Timeliness for the win. posted by Nothing... and like it at 1:51 PM on June 11, 2010
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
what the hell poop bieber
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
oh now it works. 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
A good tweet spoiled. posted by i_cola at 2:04 PM on June 11, 2010
It's broken for me too posted by IanMorr at 2:05 PM on June 11, 2010
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
Cool idea. Seems broken. posted by Vhanudux at 2:19 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
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]
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
"RT" seems to be overkill. posted by brundlefly at 4:05 PM on June 11, 2010
kind of not fun. Okay, a lot of not fun. posted by djduckie at 4:31 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
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
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
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posted by Nothing... and like it at 1:51 PM on June 11, 2010