At Long Last, An In-Game Twitter Client For Warcraft

@WingsOfDaidalos: Yet, thanks to twitter, it was much easier for the people of the world to see what was truly going on in Iran faster than even normal websites could let us see. There's no way to censor twitter from an Iranian gov't standpoint.
Yeah, people could blog, but there is no central place to view all blogs. With the hashtag system, it was really easy to keep up with real-time events from any given person at any given time. Twitter was so important during that situation, that a few days into it, the US gov't asked Twitter to delay an update that would have brought the system down during the day in Iran, even though, it obviously would have been done during the night over here.

What twitter started out to be (the way you described it) is not what it is anymore; it is bigger than that and has a huge impact on the world. If you don't see this (and not just by letting everyone know what everyone is eating for breakfast), maybe you need to keep up with the times just a tad bit more.

@[twitter.com]:

twitter is more like a benign skin cancer, easy to diagnose, easy to treat. /b/ is advanced melancoma. it will kill you.

typingfromwork

@Cheezsama: Yeah, I had to when I saw nobody else had.

@IntelSilver: HURR HURR social networking sites are SO stupid I can't begin to understand the kind of losers that would use these things. What are they for anyway? What the fuck is social networking? What kind of stupid name is FACE BOOK. What does twitter even mean? IS IT BECAUSE TWITS USE IT? LOLOLOO!22

FYI you are advised to criticise things you have actually made extensive use of. I won't remove my little love-heart from either of your names because I too was once a Twitter hater. The tweet box's rather ambiguous question of 'what are you doing' is not necessarily one folks on Twitter answer, at least the interesting ones anyway. Once you find the cool people to follow on Twitter, you'll find it surprisingly entertaining. Also note that most celebrities have the most boring Twitters imaginable, the site is great at exposing which of your favourite celebrities are about as witty as an infected toenail.

Passa

@Monolith:
another loss for WoW, theyre going too mainstream now that its just becoming wack to play the game...this is what happens when activision dips into the idea pool

anduin1

@sunpop: COULD, you mean.

MrCoffee

@Monolith: O SNAP

@GraywolfofMibu: again, I clarified that I mind it when it is not being used to direct a comment, like if I said I enjoy eating #food with @jon and @joan. THAT irks me. It has become prevalent (in that usage) due to twatter's 'coolness'.

@mcderek3000:
2 Minutes Ago
Gofthick is qqing on the official forums

3 Minutes Ago
Gofthick is exploring time paradoxes

1 Minute Ago
Gofthick is doing dailies

@Hiero: Yeah, I'm actually glad I don't use this- every Friday, it'd just be "Gawd I hate healing Mimiron"

I like the CFL reference in the screen shot. Go Lions!

marcus1060

@(Zombie) Jolan: @person is as old as the internet.

@Monolith: Nobody cares regardless, whether you play WoW, Halo, Half Life, or are a retarded celebrity, or a terrible comedian.

@Michael Forsberg: WHAT?! You guys still at Kelthuzad?! =O

@Babelfish: lol, I knew a 'yo dawg' comment was coming.

@IntelSilver:

It makes it much easier to rob them

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@PurdueMEB:
2 Minutes ago
Gofthick is watching you...

mcderek3000

@VampiricPadraig: Exactly, that's what I do. Not that I play WoW, not more than 2 hours a day. 3 hours, tops.

joandrade

@Misanthropic Gamer: Can't wait to hear the name of the next fad. Dimple Blox or something similar no doubt.

@SketchyIndividual: If the idea of knowing what Ashton had for breakfast has never appealed to you, then you'll never understand.

@mrkinder: Dammit, I knew I shouldn't have put that in there.

@Joshua Matic:

Twitter is the one thing I don't think even Billy Mays could convince me to get..ok I lied that man can convince people they need anything.

@Misanthropic Gamer: No that mod was created a long time ago when they merged WoW and Peggle.

cwbys21

@SketchyIndividual: That is the question I have been asking ever since I heard of Twitter.

cwbys21

@bangbangblah: But it's not broken English. It's still easily understood and anyone but the most vigilant of grammar nazis would be okay with it.

hurpdurp

@bangbangblah: See the comment above yours.

@Stealth_chill: No i just meant that an Elf cant be a mage, and there is no level 83 yet :p

@Paradox me: The irony is that "Can't really stand broken English either" is technically an incomplete sentence itself.

bangbangblah

Yo dawg, I herd you like social networking, so we put some Twitter in your WoW, so you can waste your life while wasting your life.

Most epic trailer for a twitter client yet.

@svenhoek: Fuck Fireworks. Ghostbusting.:

Damn Straight!!!! And mass effect be a sex simulatorrrr!!

Stealth_chill

So....

You log in. You play a few games of Peggle. After that, you check your Twitter account. You decide to comment on someone. Then you chat a little with your friend, you check your email and send a reply to a few friends. A little Bejeweled and Texas Hold'Em... You've been there 2 hours now and you decide to log out.

"Oh! I almost forgot!"

You log in and set the bot doing it's thing. You log out.

It's no wonder people are insulting WoW when even the players are trying to get away from the games by all means possible. What the heck is it with these minigames and stuff, can't you just play the game?! Geez.

PS. I've never actually played WoW (well, for 5 minutes) so take these as my false assumptions. ;)

Tzibo

@FreakyFavabean: Sort of had me til the last metaphor. Any fucker who shouts from his rooftop is no friend of mine. There's also a really good chance that he's a lunatic.

mrkinder

I see the point to Facebook + YouTube + LinkedIn and wish they were combined in one.

Allowing someone to see your status in Facebook in WoW fine as Facebook actually has value like photo albums etc. But twitter what is the point REALLY?

Just make it die please already.

TurtleSoup

@Gofthick:
3 Minutes ago
Gofthick is Alt Tabbed watching porn

3 Minutes ago
Gofthick is back to farming

PurdueMEB

@fnool: I agree, and I've barely played Warcraft 3 or WoW and the other games not at all.

@Dreyvas: I didn't claim to be perfect, nor did I say anyone else should be, but what I typed is still very legible, where as what I'm against are run on sentences, never using a comma, period or question mark, etc.

I make mistakes when I'm typing, everyone does, that's not what I was referring to.

so this is like two diseases coming together to form a stronger one?

xblindx

Am I the only one who doesnt really know what twitter is, nor care what it is? Maybe Im out of touch being in japan and not really caring about the news, but seems to me like twitter just popped up out of nowhere and it doesnt even appear to be that useful.

RuneX21

Wow. Way to make Twitter even more annoying/pointless.

Daniel Lock

@Hamflank: Maybe not the internet as a whole, but Kotaku commenters as a community care about each others' posts, which is why we see the comments of the week and TAY sections. We care about these comments because they contribute insight or humor to certain discussions.

It's basically the same with Twitter. People who don't use Twitter usually only think of the people who use it for saying stupid and pointless things as a way of getting attention. There are lots of those people on Twitter. There are also lots of those people everywhere else.

Personally, I use Twitter for entertainment, communication, and learning. People can post funny and interesting things. Not everyone does, but more than enough do to make it worthwhile for me. Twitter is pretty much the internet equivalent of standing on your rooftop and shouting to all your friends. Depending on who's doing the shouting, that could be either very entertaining or very obnoxious.

@VampiricPadraig:

Which is pretty reliable.

Firelance

@deanbmmv:

OR!! Xfire using ScrollLock + W

@Monolith: Exactly. I love twitter, but I try to follow people who provide quality tweets. I enjoy reading what my friends and my favorite comedians have to say. I do not enjoy reading about people playing World of Warcraft.

@(Zombie) Jolan: I'm still annoyed at people how use aolspeak, even though most the people who use it now probably haven't even heard of AOL.

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I don't think I like this. Please don't actually make twitter into everything that people who don't use it assume it is.

@Paradox me: There's an in-game web browser mod now. Its called Rogue or something like that.

@K1NG EV1L: I need to register SOCIALDOS.COM. Tell the world what you're doing no matter how inane in eight characters or less! SOCIALDOS.COM fits into your busy schedule and is perfect for those who want to share but no longer have the time to communicate in 140 characters let along full, coherent paragraphs.

@Man In Gauze is an obscure reference to Courage the Cowardl...:
Unfortunately that seems so, I forgot entirely about me writing it for about 30 minutes or so until I noticed I had the tab open. And that's no good.

Krigo

@Stealth_chill: That post sounded like my mom talking videogames. It was an uninformed mess of mis-facts.

@IntelSilver: As with MySpace and other "networking" sites, it's a way for people to feel like beloved unique little snowflakes on the Internet amid the homogeneous sea of people these sites attract.

@Monolith: No one cares either way...the only people checking what you write is your friends - and only because that way you check theirs. Twitter is the most retarded concept on the internet, and people use it seeking acknowledgement.

Yes, I hate Twitter.

WingsOfDaidalos

@embef:

Peggle AND Twitter?! I'm sold

@Paradox me: I find it hilarious that you're missing punctuation in a rant that complains about lack of punctuation. >_>

@(Zombie) Jolan: to further clarify I'm fine with it being used in place of the word at, it makes sense. This post is directed at my previous one, as it clarifies it. But when referring to someone as at name, instead of name, you look retarded.

@undefined: with the @person I am talking when I see sentences like "Going to go see a #movie with @mike and @paul"
thats retarded.

Alriiiight. Now I won't have to alt-tab out of WoW. Ever. Again.

Miyae

@Paradox me: It's only annoying when someone uses nothing but netspeak, otherwise I see it as being just the same as any abbreviation or slang. It's for convenience, I don't see why it bothers people so much.

Also I've been avoiding twitter like the plague, I just don't see the appeal or point to it. Doesn't sound much different from Facebook's status or comment system. You make a small tidbit and it notifies everyone following you?

What's worse is how companies are using it in order to look trendy.

How do you kill that which has no life?!

The Amazing Exploding-Man

Mindless self-indulgence at its finest... This is a pretty fresh idea...

Erran M Harris

@IntelSilver: That's pretty much what it is.

@innovacious: Especially considering Kotaku (aka, you know, the site were on now) has always used it, and Kotaku is older than Twitter.

What is the point of this? Can't you guys just tweet using a steam overlay?

crayonmonster

@fnool: Seriously,they should be kept completely seperate, as their genres and levels of quality are VASTLY different. As in, Real Warcraft is in RTS form and is awesome. WORLD of Warcraft is an MMO and is mediocre.

@Paradox me: Play Wow with the Tweet add-on in Steam. It's possible :D.
Or go split screen, like I do, then you can do multi-tasking really easy. I just tend to WoW n watch a film.

@innovacious:

We use @name here xD

@(Zombie) Jolan: Keep in mind that Twitter is integrated to enough places that many of those people *are* on Twitter, and before getting pissed at "@person", note that kotaku comments do the same thing.

@fanboyish: Exactly how I use twitter, lol.

Aeralindor

"consensual stalking"

@IntelSilver: Isn't that the truth!

@deanbmmv: I realize the uses of @, but its use has surged since twitter became 'cool'

@Paradox me:" so you do tend to use @thatperson for that.
But Hashtags (#) would be pointless in anything but Twitter as it runs trends.

@Krigo: well look, your laziness got you ganked.

@Paradox me: Play WoW in Steam then you can browse in-game with the shift-tab.
Or use the Twitter client to get a feed of Kotaku headlines.

@Michael Forsberg: lol yeah, maybe now people will blame losing duels on "tweeting" rather than the age old "lag" excuse.

@EdgesRazor:
The concept of this new, brand spanking MMORPG is to mindlessly post your status all the time. See who can annoy each others friends the most and have the biggest ego of them all!

Remember, no cheating! ;)

Krigo

@Ninja Tree: Isn't "twitters" what they call the withdrawl during server maintenance a.k.a. Black Tuesday?

Maybe it's tweaking. Either way it sounds painful.

@(Zombie) Jolan: Most of the time when I see @ or # on Facebook, it's from someone who automatically has their tweets forwarded to Facebook as status updates.

Imagine if you could post on Kotaku, tweet and play WoW at the same time. Then you'd never have to do anything else again! Other than occasionally going outside every month or two.

Krigo

@CustomFirmware:
4 minutes ago
Gofthick is sitting around in Dalaran doing nothing.

Krigo

@CustomFirmware:

4 Minutes ago
Gofthick is ganked

This is bull. When will someone incorporate an MMORPG into my Twitter?

EdgesRazor

And in other news today, human productivity has gone down thanks to the merging of two giant time sinks. This is expected to drop even further when facebook and xbox live merge.

Alucrid

@quidsquid: Give it a few months, and they'll have moved on to something else. It's not at all impressive, when you really think about it. Self-important people always love a new outlet to showcase themselves. First it was MySpace, then Facebook, and now we have crap like Twitter and YouTube.

Funny how people find Twitter narcistic and pointless, while the internet could care equally less about you posting comments on Kotaku.

Hamflank

Nice! Now I can control my farmbots from my cellphone.

Cognoscento

@Kuwabara Kazuo: You've got the most comprehensive wealth of information in all of human history at your fingertips. Look it up yourself.

Ehhhh, I was on board until I saw it was a third party program and not an addon. Not down with installing shit like that.

Nowell

quest items: 5/13

@IntelSilver:
I use it to follow friends, gaming sites, news sites, etc, but I end up posting a couple of random uninteresting tweets per day.
I do like the concept of Twitter but, then again, I also like the concept og Latitude so I may be crazy.

@Michael Forsberg: oom oh look a spiraling seal on the ground oh wai-

@sereal: This is true. Poor poor WC3 players.

lolz eating a sandwich and doing a raid

@Ketch2k8: then /b/ must be the black plague of the internets

Pfff... Blizzard

Assault

@(Zombie) Jolan: Using @name when talking to a specific person in forums/chatrooms is alot older than twitter

@Paradox me: Please tell me you were being deliberately ironic when you ended with "/rant"

*facepalm*

FunkyMunxy

when will this Twitter craze be over?

BILLY MAYS HERE FOR ANOTHER FANTASTIC PRODUCT!

Joshua Matic

@Michael Forsberg: I wrote before that I'm OOM!1

Eschekt

@embef: Finally. A reason to reactivate my Accounts.

Eschekt

@Paradox me:

yea i hate that 2

ctorrans

The slow death of life.

salmonbottle

@Ketch2k8: Social networking is the cancer of the Internet.

Fix'd dat fo ya, mate!

CombatDispenser

@ShaSt One: Of course then they'll be on some other type of retarded social networking fad.

K1NG EV1L

@excel_excel: WoW'n, Tweeting and Kotaku posting? Pretty awesome multitasking there.

@Ketch2k8: except it will go away in a year when nobody likes it anymore

@IntelSilver: Celebrities and such!

@mitch_93: CAN'T HEAR YOU NANANANA, PLAYING WOW, NANANA, NOW I'M TWEETING, NANANA

twitter is the cancer of the internet

Well then whoever plays WoW is truly fucked for life.

mitch_93

@(Zombie) Jolan: I don't mind the @person, it's just #thing .etc that bugs the shit outta me.

@(Zombie) Jolan: Haven't seen it personally, or if I have I didn't recognize it being related to twitter (I don't follow things like Twitter) but any kind of internet "speak" is pretty annoying.

Can't really stand broken English either. What's so hard about typing out a full sentence with punctuation? Of course I make an exception when English isn't someone's first language.

/rant

05 July 19:13

Raiding

05 July 22:55

Still Raiding

@(Zombie) Jolan: Agreed. It's annoying.

That said, TweetCraft installed!! :D

MAKIN' SOME GOLD WHILE TYPIN' SOME SWEEEEEEEET TWEEEEEEEETS

@Monolith: I never understood the point of twitter... Why should i care about what other people are doing? it sounds like consensual stalking to me.

@fnool:
i'm with ya on that. i was a bit surprised to see that. the generic term should be the single-syllable word, "wow."

@fnool: WTF is genericize?

Kuwabara Kazuo

Only loosely related but can anyone else not fucking stand the people who use twatspeak in non twitter places? I'm seeing @person and #thing in forums, emails, facebook, and on and on. It's getting on my nerves.

I predict they will all look like this:

"2 minutes ago
-Insert name here- ninjaed some loot from some noobs"

@Monolith: Zing! High five!

DolphinHugger

Can we get in-game Kotaku? Someone make it happen.

I don't play WoW though, so also make it happen when The Old Republic comes out!

Two of the most useless wastes of time, fused. Great.

@Gofthick:

5 Minutes ago
Gofthick is farming

Yeah, but... why?

Great! Now i can get all my un-confirmed news and irrelevant chatter in video games as well...

"Jesus! If i didn't know timmy was cooking dinner right now you can bet your sweet ass my elf mage would not have leveled up to an 83!"

Stealth_chill

@fnool: I think warcraft became world of warcraft a few million subscribers ago.

sereal

@Monolith: WoW Players have twitters?

9 Minutes ago
Gofthick is grinding

8 Minutes ago
Gofthick is grinding

7 Minutes ago
Gofthick is taking a whizz

6 Minutes ago
Gofthick is grinding

You cannot be serious...

Please don't genericise World of Warcraft as "Warcraft"

@Monolith: The people on Twitter don't either.

CombatDispenser

@Monolith: :)

trunkenmath

@Michael Forsberg:
damn, wipe. Apparently someone didn't pay attention.

Michael Forsberg

Windows only, and requires an out of game program running. Cool idea, especially with the in game screenshot posting, just a shame it got locked to one platform to do it. Reminds me a lot of the Vanguard Players integration, where your character got a mini blog with screenshots when you leveled and such.

drakino

Kelthuzad 50% hp

Michael Forsberg

Finally.

embef

Yeah, but if you're playing Warcraft, nobody CARES what you're doing.

Monolith

I'm tempted to try an experiment: To see how many people would care about worthless achievements from WoW being sent over Twitter, I'm gonna create a new WoW character, use this addon and broadcast every mundane detail that happens. Then, see how many followers it will gain, then laugh if it gets any.

@Paradox me: haha, I know. Just messing with you. You can't expect to get away scott free after a rant like that!

bangbangblah

@hurpdurp: I know, but read the sentence after it.

bangbangblah

@deanbmmv: If WoW was fun then you wouldn't need to watch a film.