TweetCraft: Twitter meets the World of Warcraft

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Twitter serves as a communication platform in our day to day lives, but with a new addon for the World of Warcraft called TweetCraft, it does the same for your character.

TweetCraft can:

The messages are handled via an in-game window:

Twitter, since launch, has permeated several different areas of our lives and emerged as a social networking giant. This functionality now extends to a virtual world of over 11 million players.

To many, such an extension will seem laughable as Twitter has not been met without harsh criticisms. Criticism arises when Twitter is used to relay information in the 'real' world, so one can only imagine the criticism that TweetCraft will receive.

At any rate, TweetCraft will certainly minimize the amount of time spent alt-tabbing out of WoW to gloat to your friends.

Below is a video, explaining in further depth the functionality of TweetCraft:

#1 Thunderbuck on 02 Jul 2009 - 19:54

I'm gonna need a 35" screen just to accomodate all my add-ins...

(1 reply) #2 scrimpy32 on 02 Jul 2009 - 20:06

if you have get your twitter updates in-game and cant logout and visit the site you really need help and should prob stop playing wow.

my god people are getting lazy

#2.1 Thunderbuck on 04 Jul 2009 - 03:38

Buzz-kill

(2 replies) #3 Sam Symons on 02 Jul 2009 - 21:19

All you need to build into World of Warcraft now is YouTube support and a browser for porn, and people will never have to leave :| (I am so glad I do not play that cursed game :p)

#3.1 Raa on 02 Jul 2009 - 23:27

I'm so glad I play casually and don't have a need for many of these things!

#3.2 FoxieFoxie on 03 Jul 2009 - 07:30

Sam Symons said,

All you need to build into World of Warcraft now is YouTube support and a browser for porn, and people will never have to leave :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ

Like this?

(1 reply) #4 RichardK on 02 Jul 2009 - 21:52

Wouldn't this potentially be a vehicle to receive in-game advertisements? If so, I don't see Blizzard allowing this.

#4.1 Thunderbuck on 02 Jul 2009 - 22:33

I'm going to say "no", because the client itself doesn't carry an ad banner.

(1 reply) #5 +Kirkburn on 02 Jul 2009 - 22:33

Note: no information can actively pass in or out of WoW - it's sandboxed - you can't browse the net, or anything like that. I can't imagine this is a simple addon - it will need an accompanying addon which still requires you to switch in/out of game.

#5.1 RichardK on 02 Jul 2009 - 22:50

It has a tray app that runs all the time.

They explain the makeup of this addon here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2...02/9813390.aspx

(1 reply) #6 nmeu on 03 Jul 2009 - 00:05

yeah it's against the wow eula or terms or whatever for a addon to have access to the 'RL' haha.. that's why it refreshes to tweet.. that blog explains it quite well i'm sure... i should prolly read it, eh? twitter.com/thizzlefizz

#6.1 +Kirkburn on 03 Jul 2009 - 15:10

nmeu said,

Given the amount of time it takes for my addon-loaded WoW install to reload the UI ... ugh

#7 SirDoan on 14 Aug 2009 - 03:02

wow, that is really cool and weird.

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