Well it can't be all THAT bad when it comes to a game company joining twitter. I see it as another way of getting up to the minute updates on things. Though I do think twitter is just a big joke. TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRAKER TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER!! (conan)
It's not that I like twitter or don't like it. I find the idea of it stupid though. What kinda self centered jack ass actually thinks they're important enough to be writing about what they're doing or thinking every 5 minutes and really believes other people actually give a crap? I think something like Blizzard updating the status of all their games, say putting up all the major announcements that come up during blizzcon, is actually worthwhile usage of something like twitter.
Beats someone talking about how, "omg today I had a sausage egg mcmuffin at mcdonalds for breakfast! Now I am off to work. I'll update more when I get there!" omg I can't wait to hear more! lol
Twitter is a pretty awesome resource for companies. It is as near to zero cost advertising as you can get. For blizzard it is maybe a bit redundant because they already announce almost everything major through their main sites and it is mirrored out to all the popular fansites within a day or two, but at the same time it has the ability to let fans in on the game dev cycle a bit more.
Also, it is advantageous to have one, simply for the free search engine plug. The natural high link count on twitter leads it to rank highly on search engines that put heavy emphasis on that (Like Google).
I'll follow the page for a while, probably until they start talking about off-topic crap that I don't care about
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Well, someone *did* make that image... but it got edited out of the thread?
Beats someone talking about how, "omg today I had a sausage egg mcmuffin at mcdonalds for breakfast! Now I am off to work. I'll update more when I get there!" omg I can't wait to hear more! lol
Also, it is advantageous to have one, simply for the free search engine plug. The natural high link count on twitter leads it to rank highly on search engines that put heavy emphasis on that (Like Google).
I'll follow the page for a while, probably until they start talking about off-topic crap that I don't care about
Out of sheer spite and rebelliousness, here it is again:
EDIT: Wait, not only my picture, but also the post quoting and, more importantly, lavishing praise on it, taken out? Why?