The Dark Knight Viral Buddy System (Including Info on Twitter Updates)

[cinematheque]

All right guys, I'm gonna post this at the beginning to, but I've made a Twitter account dedicated to game updates. The username is why_so_serious, and here for your ease is a link:

https://***********/why_so_serious

I'll try to share this in the Speakeasy when more people are around, and I'm going to edit my first post to incorporate this. I desperately need others to help keep this Twitter account up-to-the-minute. With enough people I seriously think we can have any updates on new or changed situations, big or small, within seconds, and they can be sent to a number of people simultaneously through different media. So please, if you're interested, PM me, and I'll hook you up with the password so that you, too, can update it!

Bon appetit!

 

[ActuallyRobin]

twitter is perfect for this, good idea there cinema

 

[cinematheque]

Actually someone else suggested it early on, and so I went and checked it out and as it happens it is ridiculously perfect for this, so, voila!

 

[cinematheque]

I posted this in the former Viral Buddies thread, but as per jokersminion's suggestion to me, I'm making a new post so that hopefully this Twitter account can get more traffic and people to help keep it updated as quickly as possible (at the moment, it's just jokersminion and me, although I'd say for 5 a.m. PST that's not too shabby).

The username for the TDK viral account is why_so_serious, and here for your ease is a link:

https://***********/why_so_serious

I'll try to share this in the Speakeasy when more people are around as well (and if nobody volunteers to help a girl out then I'm willing to stoop to the creation of an entirely new thread for it). I desperately need others to help keep this Twitter account up-to-the-minute, so please volunteer if you can. Honestly, if there are a few volunteers, it can get alerts out really quickly and easily with no sweat off anybody's backs. With enough people I seriously think we can have any updates on new or changed situations, big or small, within seconds, and they can be sent to a number of people simultaneously through different media, and seriously, these updates are typically less than 140 characters, so it'll take you about 30 seconds to do if you notice it first. So please, if you're interested, PM me, and I'll hook you up with the password so that you, too, can update it!

And don't be afraid to sign up to watch or help if you're not familiar with Twitter. I literally just signed up with it a couple hours ago and I'm thinking it's got a pretty friendly interface, and it's very easy to update--just like updating a Facebook status, really. There's a big giant "What are you doing?" box in which you'd type updates. It's easy; all it requires is that we've got people around to update it when it needs updating.

And you know, it's got an RSS feed, in case you feel a desire to do something with that.

Hooray for all!




And P.S., if anyone can figure out some brilliant system for getting text or multimedia alerts (hopefully text) on a cell carrier that doesn't do Twitter short codes (Cricket), let me know. That's half the reason I created this thing and I can't #$%ing use it! (Although let me assure you, I am in the minority. Pretty much all the major carriers do it, but you know, it'd just be too easy if it worked for me.)

 

[buddha182]

Following! This should be awesome if you keep up with it... I love Twitter!

My twitter: http://***********/firstshowing

 

[cinematheque]

Good, then maybe you can help me out...I can't seem to get it to send notifications to me. I mean I made a fake account that I listed as following to test and as hard as I try I seem unable to elicit e-mail or Gmail Talk notifications from Twitter. Do you have any idea which stupid thing I'm doing wrong? (I mean in short, if you get such notifications, can you tell me the proper settings?)

 

[TheClownPrince]

I just created a Twitter account; how do I go about getting text messages sent to my cell phone from the TDK account with updates?

 

[Acme Security]

 

[Spider/Bat-man]

My msn is [email protected] if some people would like to add me so we can help each other out/notify each other!

 

[krinshaw2]

My msn is [email protected] if some people would like to add me so we can help each other out/notify each other!

Here.

Thanks Anita.

 

[cinematheque]

I just created a Twitter account; how do I go about getting text messages sent to my cell phone from the TDK account with updates?

Wow, sorry I took so long to find this. Anyway in case you haven't done it yet, you go into settings and there should be a page about notifications. It'll give you an option for IM notifications and for text message notifications--plug in your phone number for the text message ones, and then I think you have to text a specific message (it'll say on the website) to a shortcoded phone number from your phone. It should work, although there are a few carriers (like mine) that don't support shortcode so can't be used. But this is pretty unlikely if you have a major carrier. Sorry my directions aren't better...like I said, it doesn't actually work on my phone so I've been trying to circumvent the whole system and get instant stuff sent to my phone.

(If anyone has any suggestions...uh, I can receive e-mails on my phone, so I tried using an RSS Forwarding service to forward updates from the RSS feed to an e-mail account which forwards to my phone, but the only RSS forwarding systems I've found--all two--take forever to e-mail me updates. So if anyone knows of any clever way to get Twitter info into my inbox instantly, please let me know.)

 

[cinematheque]

I'm bumping this post up (and pasting this message at the beginning as well) because I've seen people mentioning the buddy system again and it seems like a lot of people didn't hop on board last time and might still be interested. I also know that a lot of availability has changed since this last time, so people may be new to the game/their buddies may have dropped out/they may need a buddy now when they didn't a month ago.

Anyway, I have a few text message buddies and we try to keep each other updated in case anything crazy pops up, although many of us have been slacking. Nevertheless, it's pretty useful, especially for those times you can't be on the computer, or even worse, those times when you can be, but you just happen to be doing something else. (I mean, if you were doing something you couldn't get out of while a game went on without you, that sucks, but not as much as doing nothing worthwhile while a game went on without you.)

Mostly here I want to stress the Speakeasy (which is still thanks to the magnif nerium, and is at http://www.gotham-speakeasy.com/...if you have Flash, you can get in). It's a good place to go while a game is going on because with enough people in there, someone always notices an update in a pretty timely fashion and then tells everybody else. Similarly, I've got a couple text message buddies from the Speakeasy just by asking if anyone wants to be text buddies and they're awesome.

Also, it's a good place to go to chillax and discuss the game in off-time, like theories you might have or ones you've seen getting thrown around. At this point it's also a good place to show up if you want someone to summarize something that's going on now, or recently enough so that it's not up on the Wiki yet. (And, you know, like the first sentence in this paragraph...the Wiki deals with what has happened but this gives you another forum for guessing what's to come.) That, and a lot of us just hang around in there in our spare time and talk about nothing in particular, so if you're bored and wanna sit around talking about nothing in particular, feel free to join us.

If there's a high enough demand, I might still make the spreadsheet I talk about in my original post (preserved and unchanged below) with Hype names/AIM names/text messaging yes/no? business somewhere, or I might try to find a place where you could add that stuff to a database yourself, and give you the option of including your phone number somewhere mildly public or just saying that you're interested in texting and anyone else would have to contact you through PM/AIM to get it.

Anyway, this game's pretty much foshiz about the networking, and this system not only works but has provided much entertainment to me thanks to the Speakeasy, so, you know. Bumpity bump.

 

[mongoose-mania]

Sounds like a great idea to me! My AIM address is on my profile.

 

[Starbird]

You can find my MSN, AOL, AIM, and myspace on my name, for any updates send them there.

 

[Mr.E.Nigma]

I'm in!!!

my msn is on my page

i'll give ya my myspace n stuff via email t:

 

[Andrizzle]

To anyone and everyone in this list! I'm sure every WSS group is looking for oracles to help them through the hunt! I know Chicago is looking for an internet partner for every goon on the ground, if you aren't near a city, this is your chance to help out!

Plus, the sooner you get clues from the ground, the sooner you can get to your online prize! Let's see some volunteers!

 

[cinematheque]

 

[jokersminion]

I am willing to be an online partner to anyone, I am closest to chicago but can help out whoever needs an online buddy for the hunt pm me if you need my help

 

[Tannim]

My AIM is Tannim01

Unfortunately, I'm closest to Detroit, MI... so never anywhere near the game locations to participate in person. But I can help with the Toronto and Chicago events as an online person.

 

[BlueLightning]

I´ll be in the computer all the monday afternoon in my home. I am going to help Dallas guys cause is the nearest location, but if anyone else needs help PM me .