Comments on: Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub?

By: AppBank Wants to Help You Cash In on Facebook Apps

AppBank Wants to Help You Cash In on Facebook Apps — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:28:09 +0000

[...] has an audience of 300 million, AppBank may find more success if it turns to Twitter, which is the new darling for app [...]

By: iGoogle Finally Goes Social | Tech Newz

iGoogle Finally Goes Social | Tech Newz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:14:11 +0000

[...] a calendar, though it also needs to be refreshed manually. And with an eye to Facebook, which has evolved into a social gaming hub since it launched its application platform in 2007, iGoogle now offers three new social gaming [...]

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iGoogle Finally Goes Social — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:01:20 +0000

By: The Super Rewards Blog » Blog Archive » GigaOm Recognizes Super Rewards —- First to Monetize Microblogging Network, Twitter

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:04:28 +0000

[...] Gains First Monetized Social Game Much like Om did in a post earlier today, Smith also noted the emergence of social games played via Twitter messaging, especially quizzes [...]

By: Garrett Link

Garrett Link — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:32:48 +0000

Twitter has all the right building blocks for a solid foundation of gaming and I’m certain game makers will find ways to leverage the assets Twitter brings to the table. More and more people are playing digital games, games online and games with others every day.

Beyond that, when you take a broader view, Twitter itself is also a building block in the “web 2.0″ world where services are built on top of services, and games and entertainment will find ways to plug Twitter into their overall strategies.

As for native games on Twitter that all the play takes place completely within the Twitter service, I think it completely possible to build a game that isn’t spammy and is engaging, but it’s not something I’d expect to monetize in the same ways people are monetizing games on other platforms.

I’d expect to see innovation in this area in the coming months from big companies and individual entrepreneurs! I’ll be looking for ways to connect my games with all types of web 2.0 services.

By: Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? [Voices] | UpOff.com

Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? [Voices] | UpOff.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:14:03 +0000

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By: Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? | Om Malik | Voices | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:11:50 +0000

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By: Roshan Joshi

Roshan Joshi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:35:36 +0000

minor twitter games such as trivia or puzzles are likely to do good in Twitter. Almost addictive and huge members of Twitter make it more fun.

By: 4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit — So Far

4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit — So Far — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:26 +0000

[...] Gains First Monetized Social Game Much like Om did in a post earlier today, Smith also noted the emergence of social games played via Twitter messaging, especially quizzes [...]

By: Will Twitter follow Facebook as the new CASUAL GAMING hub? « It’s Game Time! Because Gaming is Serious Business!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:41 +0000

[...] Tags: Casual Gaming Hub, dls-csb, Facebook, gigaom, Twitter trackback A very interesting post by GigaOm posits this: “After initial experiments with pointless apps such as vampire bites and zombies, Facebook [...]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:32:46 +0000

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By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:18:08 +0000

Thanks for the mention! In our short existence (we launched a week ago), here’s what we’ve learned so far:
1) people like trivia (2500 players in 1 week)
2) interacting and learning from your players is important! we’ve had some issues happen already and if we were not communicating well, I think people would’ve gotten very frustrated very quickly.
3) build what they want, not what you want – we’ve been running surveys to learn about timing, difficulty level, community engagement, etc
4) people like real world prizes
5) sponsors like easily trackable systems (# of followers, # of players, for example)
6) growth ebbs and flows – that’s okay
7) it’s important to not have your players’actions become annoying to their twitter followers

And most important – running a trivia game is a lot of fun! I think it’s as addictive to us as it is to the players!

By: ramsay taplin

ramsay taplin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:12:00 +0000

i think twitter games will just end up a fad. Fast rise, fast fall. Real gamers will play real games and twitter will remain the abode of updates. But, the spam issue is a big one. People are marketing links way too hard on twitter now

By: Adam Simon

Adam Simon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:50:06 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, but so far nearly all of the Twitter games are ports of word games. Spymaster was interesting in that it actually made use of the social component of Twitter, but went wrong by exploiting it to promote itself, rather than the players. So what would a social game that lives inside of Twitter rather than riding on top of it look like?

By: Johny

Johny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:45:25 +0000

Twitter is hated by so many people now. For sure gamers will not like twitter. It is a waste of everyones time. Twitter is started to plagued by spammers and bots. For example have a look at http://www.istwittercrap.com and see how many million people hate twitter. I wish twitter goes down like that whale.

By: Shai

Shai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:32:59 +0000

Om, I don’t see Twitter being a legitimate platform for social gaming, at least not in the near future. As you know there was a lot of backlash from the SpyMaster game, most people don’t want to read those sorts of tweets. People have and are starting to enjoy the quality casual games on iPhone, FB, Myspace, etc. I don’t see why a user would leave those sites to play social/casual games on twitter. If you are using Twitter, you are likely to use Facebook as well, so why go to a less optimal platform to play games? If Zynga/Playdom/Playfish/Others can create applications to run on Twitter, than they can be become a hub