How Twitter Gamifies Communication
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How Twitter Gamifies Communication
Noting a trend toward the design of games with “interactional and auditory special effects [that] serve to give the experience of being able to control and manipulate the production of the effect,” she observes that although such effects would seem to invite active rather than passive participation, in fact they tend to bring about states of absorp
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But on Twitter, if you tweet something out and one lone person out there— it moves them, it changes them, it changes their world— that’s not going to register. What that’s going to look like is your tweet got one lonely like and you’re going to feel like a failure. And one of the interesting things about this experience is the process of quantifica... See more
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
mentorship, social acceptance, social feedback, companionship, and even competition and envy.