Epeus’ epigone: How Twitter works in theory is a really nice introduction to the social dimensions of the communicrack that is twitter. I’m currently working on a variety of twitter-based game projects with the design group Local No. 12 and find the design constraints of working with 140 characters of text super interesting.
In the post I mention above, there’s a key observation:
“Using friends’ faces in ads is even more pernicious, as ads are by definition recommendations from people we don’t trust.”
This hit home for my Local No. 12 colleague Eric Zimmerman, when a game advert took over his account, turning him into an adverbot:
wow. that’s a way to lose your players. Thanks @jofsharp for sending on this post!
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