Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | 09:47 BST
Games industry doesn’t understand Twitter, says Mika
Dev vet Mike Mika has told Develop that the games industry doesn’t get Twitter. We think it’s actually time to put the “no shit Sherlock” tag into proper action.
βIn boardrooms across the world, people are using Facebook and Twitter as a buzzword rather than really understanding why they work so well and what they offer to enhance a game,β he said.
Mika added: “In many ways, the games industry is waking up to what the web has offered for so long, and in doing so, it’s following some of the classic misconceptions.
“Just being where the action is doesn’t make you succeed. You need to integrate, understand, dissect. There’s no magic bullet.β
More through there.
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4 comments
#1
Blerk
06/07/09, 9:49 am
I don’t understand Twitter either.
#2
frostquake
06/07/09, 12:31 pm
I tweet and face all the time…in fact it eats up soooooo much of my time I am starting to hate it…wait I need to tweet that I am peeing..BRB!
#3
cachucha
06/07/09, 5:50 pm
I dont get it either, who cares what other people do Lol, i kinde checked a twiter from some guy that posted game news, but suddenly everyone was “twitting” about their everyday crap geez..
#4
Cort
07/07/09, 12:27 am
I understand Twitter. It’s a way for a very small number of people to make an awful lot of money out of an awful lot of vain, self-absorbed and/or stupid people for very little effort.
That’s Twitter.
And in two years time it will be just like Friends Reunited and MySpace are now; like the proverbial old actress, well past her day, desperately trying to get noticed and resorting to embarrassing acts of attention grabbing which fail miserably.
That’s Twitter.
You go off and read what world-changing app that vain, self-obsessed, self-cock-sucking, corporate shill-fuckwit Stephen Fry downloaded on his iPhone today. The rest of us will get a life.