Twinterest: A New Twitter Game by Gravity
Today we launched Twinterest on stage at The Web 2.0 Summit 2010 in San Francisco!
Twinterest is a Twitter-based game that analyzes your tweets to figure out what you’re into and shows how your interests compare to your friends’. You can play Twinterest here: http://www.gravity.com/labs/twinterest.
Here’s how the game works. First, you connect with Twitter. Next, we pull your tweet history and use our natural language processing technology to determine your interests based on what you’ve said on Twitter. After we process your tweets, we create a personal interest report for you. The report shows your interests and how your interests compare to your friends who have already played. You can tweet your results to your friends and followers or @mentions specific friends so that they’ll play and you can compare interests. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
Twinterest is the first game built on our platform. We built Twinterest for a few reasons. First, we wanted to show you your Interest Graph, an online representation of your real-world interests, and give you a sense for how we can apply it. In this case, Twinterest shows you what you have in common with your friends and followers on Twitter. Second, we wanted to tune our interest graphing algorithms and our ontology. Whenever a user removes an interest, our interest service gets a little smarter. This crowdsourcing is invaluable for making our platform better. Finally, we wanted to establish a connection with users so that we can show them future products built by their interest graphs.
Enjoy Twinterest, and please bear with us while it scales. We working hard to make sure you have a great experience!
