TWANSMITTER
Much like
twitter itself, the anarchic twitteRPG
seen here continues to evolve and captivate in unpredictable ways despite its many limitations and erratic uptime. Twitter's capacity to support diverse forms of communication and creativity far beyond its stated purpose has garnered a lot of attention, particularly for those uses that are collective and emergent -- fictional characters included. While the remarkable coterie of
Mad Men twitterers have deservedly gotten the most press, our Battlestar Galactica network also hit the blogosphere, where
Infocult described it as "on the chaotic end of Web 2.0 storytelling, with authorship and IP fairly open." If you'd like to hear more about my experiences with the project, here's the videoblog:
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One of the features twitter lacks is the capability to view an aggregated friendslist (for an account other than your own). As a workaround,
The Hybrid has been archiving the ongoing narrative in
favorites. This is not an ideal reading interface, however, so as a joint effort of myself and
pirateygoodness we hereby present the first almost 400 individual tweets in a single-page, top-down installment. If you survive the scrolling, you will witness the organic development of a completely insane and largely frivolous experiment in collaborative fan writing.
NB: Inclusion of tweets is discretionary based on their contribution to the story. This is not a complete record of all tweets by all characters.
This post contains 40 images under the cut and is NOT dial-up friendly. You can view them one at a time in order in
this gallery.
TWITTERERS (to date)
revealing the identities that are known to me -- will add other credits by request
Bill Adama Lee Adama Karl Agathon Sam Anders -
millari Gaius Baltar D'Anna Biers -
tellitslant Centurion -
ramiah Leoben Conoy Tory Foster -
projectjulie Felix Gaeta Jake Laura Roslin -
grrl_unscripted Caprica Six -
pirateygoodness Number Six Kara Thrace Saul Tigh -
beccatoria Cally Tyrol Galen Tyrol Tom Zarek One True God The Final Cylon The Hybrid -
thearchive2 TWITTERSODES
The Prequel: Touching Minds
Coming Out Day
Finding Gods
[03 August tweets removed from favorites due to volume]
*
galentyrol @leoben missed at the altar ceremony. @toryfoster @samanders & I had a great time with @cylonhybrid in the tub. 6:27 PM Aug 3rd, 2008
* duplicate tweet by @samanders should read: "That was the only part of being a Cylon I was actually *looking forward* to at first!"
You can read more of the continuing saga, including the grand entrance of
@Laura_Roslin, in the
DATAFONT...
ETA: As of February 19, 2009 you can follow the twitterverse at the new and improved
DATASTREAM courtesy of Yahoo Pipes.