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…
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.
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.
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.
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