Bored? Like word games? Love Twitter?
February 24th, 2008Check out TweetWords. It is a great game that combines the fun of word play games like Scrabble and your addiction of Twitter. However, you do not have to be on Twitter or a tweeter to play.
For those unfamiliar with Twitter it is a micro-blogging site that I compare to instant messaging to hundreds or thousands of people all at once.
For those of you unfamiliar with Scrabble, where the hell have you been? You know how to find this blog, but never heard of Scrabble – really? Please stop reading and go to Target and find the game Scrabble. You need to start at square one. The game TweetWords is too advanced for you, sorry. 
So back to TweetWords. The basic premise of the game is that each week you are given a challenge to create words. It may be nouns or in the case of this week, it is creating the longest word. Using the basic per letter scoring similar to Scrabble, where each letter has a point value you try to create your five best words each day.
It sounds easy right? Well, the part with Twitter comes in that makes it more challenging. The more popular your word is in the Twitter public time line, the more bonus points you receive. So the more often other people are tweeting a word you enter, the higher your score. For example, “twitter” itself is always a popular word in the Twitter public time line so that would not give a lot of points for the length of a word or the value of each letter, but would give points based on popularity. However, a word like “zygodactylous” would score huge for length and the value of each letter with a “Z” and two “Ys”, but would not be something people commonly tweet about, so it would not score much there.
So who is the mastermind behind this fun game? That is the best part, it was created by our own Ryan Hadley, who is a Systems Administrator/IT Specialist in Indigio’s IT Department. He did the whole thing in his spare time based on his love of games and fascination with Twitter. Please do Ryan a solid and check it out. If you like it, play it and share the love by passing it along to your friends.
One Response to “Bored? Like word games? Love Twitter?”
By Ben Arwin on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
To clear up any confusion, the game is actually called “TweetWords” rather than “TwitterWords”
“TwitterWords” was the early working name, but was ultimately replaced with TweetWords.”