For all of you World of Warcraft fans out there, there’s a new Twitter client that is worth checking out. TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for WoW that lets you send and receive Tweets within a game. If you are busy in the middle of a WoW match, you can put Tweets in a queue to send when it’s more convenient.
The client also lets you upload in-game WoW screenshots using TwitPic and will automatically send out Tweets when you log in, enter an instance or get an achievement.
Tweetcraft also caught the attention of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who blogged about the client today.
Here’s a video with details of the client:
Wasn’t this by Channel10?
http://www.c10.com
Yes, this was made by Microsoft. Brilliant!
If that’s true they’ve really been focusing a lot on twitter. Either a hop on the bandwagon move, or a really smart way to cash in on the viral fanfare of Twitter.
I wonder what’s next Grand Theft Auto-tweet? Grand Tweet Auto?
Seems like Twitter is infiltrating everything these days.
Haha, pretty much. Twitter appears like a simple yet pervasive service but I’m glad that I can tweet while playing World of Warcraft.
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The add-on worked flawlessly. I just hope it’ll not die. I heard it’s against Blizzard’s ToS.
Haha awesome.
The epicness of the video sort of deflated for me when I read the word “AutoTweet”. Couldn’t help but giggle a little.
haha, nice one, the warcraft is an epic game like age of empires, nice to see this kind of strategy games using the social networks ideology. Best regards to everyone, thanks.
Woot!! This is awesome!!
@John Mackenzie:
Warcraft was an RTS like Age of Empires. World of Warcraft is an MMORPG, which is something entirely different.
In fact, I’d go out on a limb and say that WoW (when combined with its common adjuncts of theorycrafting forums, guild websites, and Ventrilo servers) provides far more sophisticated social features than most of the standard social networking sites today. The game is meant to be played cooperatively and contains many features to facilitate communication and coordination between people.
What appears to make this tool different is the ability to communicate in real time to the outside world from within the game. Based on the lack of addons like this, I had assumed that Blizzard disallowed it. Definitely looks cool.
I’m at loss for words : I need an explanation!
I thought Blizzard’s LUA purposely BLOCKED any kind of real-time communication In-Game to an outside server.
This shouldn’t be possible.
Well, it’s very good news if it can be done : it means my start-up will soon be able to release its own WoW addon
the juxtaposition of “world of warcraft” and “worth checking out” was a nice comedy break on this 4th of july. thanks!
Sorry to say I never really enjoyed WOW or Twitter. However I’m not surprised about what I’ve read. Warcraft is an addiction or a plaig to some people. It’s great marketing strategy.
I am a geek. I play WoW. I use Twitter. But this is even too geeky for me.
Sheesh.
Hi Leena,
Thanks for the TweetCraft mention! The one thing to update in the article is that TweetCraft isn’t an independent company, but rather we work for Microsoft and built the application for Microsoft’s Coding4Fun Web site – http://blogs.ms....com/coding4fun. Coding4Fun is all about fun, cool open source projects and APIs like the Skype Voice Changer, Unreal Tournament AI bots, or the well-known Wiimote .NET library which Johnny Lee used for his famous YouTube Wiimote hack videos.
Cheers,
Dan Fernandez
Microsoft
I play WOW too,I agree twitter+WOW
I won´t go there again!!! NOOOOO!
What a great idea XDD.. WOW journalists now have a new way to show their realtime news
So .. what’s next? FacebookCraft? or FriendfeedCraft?
This sounds cool. I’ll have to check it out
Seems like it has opened doors to a much larger market….integrating twitter clients in everything imaginable!
I am really surprised…the complete lack of any acknowledgement of this being created by Microsoft is astounding. No mention at all…no credit. Amazing. Give the MSFT guys credit when it’s due.
Cool skin, i know this will be a hit because of the fans of warcraft
All I can say for TweetCraft is WOW!
wow
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Great….. cool one…..
Installed and tested this.
Refreshing your twitter feed requires a UI reload – basically, it refreshes your entire game and forces you to wait through a load screen, much like switching zones.
Sending a tweet requires a UI reload.
You can queue them up to send all at once, but that defeats the purpose of realtime updates.
I give it a thumbs down.
Hmm. Without support for realtime tweeting, this seems about as convenient as alt-tabbing over to a Twitter app. I wish I could look down my nose at the idea of this app, but I’m less than six months removed from being a WoW geek myself.
that’s cool
and i can use twitter while i m in wow
One thing I’ve noticed that is very against the Blizzard rules: It’s a pay to use addon. I shall not pay for, nor will I endorse such an addon.
TweetCraft is 100% free and open source under an OSI-Approved license.
Nice little tool for those interested in Tweeting whilst gaming
Alot of websites are built with Twitter in mind.
Free paid apps anybody?? http://www.appgiveaway.com
Twit*ter = WoW general chat
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it just make sense that sooner or later the two cesspool of inane thoughts would merge.
[q]Refreshing your twitter feed requires a UI reload – basically, it refreshes your entire game and forces you to wait through a load screen, much like switching zones.[/q]
That’s because the only way you can save variables to a file is by either refreshing the UI or logging out of the game. Blizzard intentionally developed the client to function this way to prevent certain types of malicious activity.
I could have wrote this addon in approximately 3 seconds.
I doubt you could implement this in 3 seconds.
While you may not think it’s complex, I’d really like to understand how you plan on showing Twitter avatar images inside World of Warcraft. Why? Because Warcraft only supports BLP (proprietary) or TGA images.
We had to write code based on the TGA specification to dynamically convert JPGs/GIFs/PNGs to the exact specification TGA image that Warcraft requires. In fact, just converting the images isn’t enough, Warcraft requires the images to have both the height and width be sized to powers of 2 (ex: 48×48, 64×64), so you’ll have to dynamically resize the images.
Thanks,
-Dan
I am seeing a lot of gold farmer tweets already, so what’s next? plurkcraft?