Nick Pettit

So, I know I’m a bit late to this, but Spymaster filling up my tweet stream is getting really annoying… For full disclosure here, I have not played Spymaster. Maybe I’m in the minority on this:

http://playspymaster.com/

I recognize that Twitter is still a relatively new medium, and that things like Twitter games are going to catch on, but it really waters down Twitter’s utility as a communication and information sharing platform. Perhaps it’s time for Twitter to include more metadata with a tweet to better categorize them and direct their flow. For example, maybe a tweet could be categorized as a “game” tweet, and only other people playing that same game would receive it.

…Maybe I just don’t get it. Could someone please explain this whole phenomena to me? What do you think of it?