Retweet Game
- website
- retweetgame.com
- Code Repo
- github.com/gleuch/retweet-fucker
As Twitter releases its official support for retweeting (RT), it was decided that they need some help in their new system. Retweet Game applies retweeting into a game, with the winners receiving hundreds of new retweets and followers.
Retweet Game exploits the user's desires for Twitter popularity and reach with a unassuming and forgettable interface while thrusting users’ common conversations into the upper bounds of Twitter famousness. Users to gamble their time and tweets for a chance to win a retweet round.
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Statement
The ambiguous nature of Retweet Game as an art piece and game softens the honest, malicious nature of the application as a legitimate, opt-in Twitter bot-net. However, the intentions of Retweet Game's are to cut into different Twitter communities with unseemingly benign tweets that may normally not be seen by others. This is furthered by forcing people to follow the person they retweet, therefore introducing new content someone may otherwise never discover or be willing to follow. Retweet game also aims to prove how little value there is with retweets and followers when automated systems can artificially inflate these numbers through seemingly honest and open methods.
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