Twitter is a battlefield. That retweet may look innocent now, but for at least one site, it's a swinging broadsword. This is Tweeria, the self-proclaimed Lazy Twitter RPG. If you've got a Twitter account, you're already playing it, whether you know it or not.
The result is a deranged mirror of Twitter, placing you in endless war with everyone you follow
Everything that happens on Tweeria starts with something that happened on Twitter — a retweet, for instance, or an @-reply back-and-forth — but in Tweeria, it gets translated to a battleaxe or a fireball. The program pulls data direct from Twitter’s API, creating a character for every account, and assigning health and strength stats based on number of tweets and follower count. If...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/26/3804756/world-of-tweeria-like-it-or-not-your-twitter-feed-is-a-massive-role
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