Twittering in Second Life
When I first found out about Twitter, I really thought that for me personally it was “overkill”, a tool to leave alone to hedge the risk of getting addicted to another time eater, just like Second Life.
However recently, in my search for tools that portray some integration between Real Life and Second Life, I thought about hearing something about Twitter and Second Life. It must have been on For Immediate Release, my favorite podcast. Anyway, I went to search for Twitterbox, which I remembered the tool was called.
I found the tool on a nice weblog maintained by Second Life resident Ordinal Malaprop. Ordinal is the very generous creator of the Twitterbox, of which version 0.4 was released a few days ago. The Twitterbox, when installed, works by entering “/282 ….some text…..” on the chat line, so is very easy to use. After hitting enter some nice graphics are presented (see first image) above the avatar, which by the way, might leave nearby avatars wondering what happened…
Like I do (too) often, I already started to think about the tool even before really trying it out and came up with the idea that it would be nice to show tweets in Second Life as well. So I left a comment to Ordinal’s weblog sharing my idea, to which she reacted quite fast and after only a day or two the complementory Twitterbadge was ready.
The Twitterbadge offers to display anyone’s Twitter tweets via so called “floating text”. In the image below you can see the Twitterbadge script has been put into a prim with the Twitter logo featuring as texture.
As for my twittering: I intend to only use Twitter while in Second Life, providing some thoughts and shoutouts about my ventures over there.
By the way the official twitterbadge is also visible on this weblog on the Second Life section.
Twitterbadge in action, with as base a special textured prim
Related: all my Second Life articles
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posted Apr 23, 10:36 PM on Apr 23, 2007 |
category: Second Life
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Hey, do join our Twitter Users group in SL, we meet 2x a month to talk about Twitter and all sorts of other tech.
Also, add me on twitter, and ill add you right back :) http://twitter.com/NickWilson
— 57 Miles Apr 24, 12:22 PM #
Hi, ook eindelijk aan het twitteren geslagen (gwen_kronsage) in SL. Dank voor de tip http://www.amazingg.nl/blog/2007/05/twittering-in-second-life.html
— gwendolyn kronsage May 3, 11:20 AM #
Hi Gwen,
Thanks for stopping by here. Hope to meet you sometimes in SL.
— Marcel May 4, 10:03 PM #