Recursive Function

We launched a fun new project this week called Tweet140. It’s a simple game targeted at Twitter users. If you follow the tweet140 account, we keep track of your tweets and score you based on how many 140 character tweets (”twooshes”) you write, and how high your average character count is.

We occasionally like to put together small projects like this to get our creative juices flowing and experiment with new technology. There’s no better way to do this than to write something that gets released to the public. We got to tinker with the Twitter API, Google Charts, and mootools, and will be taking a few lessons learned with us into new and existing projects.

It’s also been an interesting sociological experiment. We’ve been following the comments by people in the Twitter universe, and quite a few seem to love it AND hate it. That was exactly the kind of reaction we were going for, and how we all feel about it ourselves. Twee140 is a silly game, but anyone who’s ever twooshed can’t help but play.

What do you think about it?

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