Presenting Twitter Scrabble
Here is a silly idea I came up with: play a massive game of Scrabble on Twitter.
Everyone picks 1 of the 26 letters as an avatar.. whomevers’ list of followers on their profile spells out the highest scoring/longest word wins.. scoring could be based on scrabble rules.. like the use of X or Q in a word is worth more points etc..
Maybe it can be an ongoing game by taking screenshots and submiting to flickr using the same tag for game/points tracking…
Here is a quick mock-up.. where COUCH is the winning word.
Okay, the idea is out in the wild, have fun with it…
UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that a few day earlier this dude spawned the idea. I did not know about it.. so I came to the same idea as he did.. just a few days later. Great minds think alike…
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4 Comments, Comment or Ping
joshua
doh.. of course it would also work with the small avatar photo list on the right hand side.. i think they show 104 avatars? lots of letters.
Aug 27th, 2008
Jon
Yeah, except someone posted this idea 6 days before you, and it went nowhere then as well.
http://twitter.com/Malarkey/statuses/894310365
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andallthatmalarkey/sets/72157606869395249/
Nice job trying to take credit for it, though.
Aug 28th, 2008
joshua
Thanks for finding that Jon.
If you look at the comp in this post you can even see a K and A scrabble letters in my follower list.. I did not see those at first, but honestly the idea came when i changed my avatar to just whitespace.
Props then to Malarkey for the twitter scrabble idea.
Aug 29th, 2008
Scott Andreas
Hey,
Just stumbled on this post after finding your Twitter profile through Andrew Hyde. I developed a plugin a bit like this a year ago called Elements. It’s probably not quite as elegant, but it’s great for creating multiple editable regions across a site and works fine with WP 2.6.x.
If you’d like to check it out, it’s here: http://www.paradoxica.net/downloads/elements/
Cheers,
Scott
Oct 5th, 2008
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