Twitter Your Progress

R2witco is Whit Anderson: designer, Star Wars geek, cat lover, artist of sorts, and probably a few other things as well.

This is an outlet that tracks my online behavior. There are a few of my different feeds pumping information here to be easily digested by anyone wanting to see what's going on.

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Twitter Your Progress

maniacalrage:

I finally got a chance to play a little of Uncharted 2 last night, and noticed in the game’s options menu there was an option for setting up your Twitter account, which it would then use to “update Twitter with your progress as you play the game.” I think I actually saw a shark being jumped in the background.

But I started thinking about it, and, frankly, it’s actually a genius idea. People are already using Twitter constantly, and they’re starting to connect it to everything (Facebook, Tumblr, et cetera)—why not drop it into quite literally everything. Since Twitter is easy to interface with API-wise, it’s trivial to put it into games, consoles, phones, TVs. Soon your toaster oven will be posting: “@garrettmurray’s toast is mad burned lol!”

Actually, maybe this is a terrible idea after all.

Yes, this is a terrible idea. We always talk about the fear of Big Brother watching us all the time, then we go and build the technology for us to broadcast what we’re doing at all times. This saves Big Brother the trouble how to do it, they just sit back and enjoy the show.