Kastang Ramblings of a Geek

Combining Twitter and World of Warcraft

I recently finished a project of incorporating Twitter into my World of Warcraft guilds website. The ultimate goal of this feature was to have an additional way of communicating with those outside of the game who do not have regular access to the guild forums.

For those who don't know: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? -Twitter.

Twitters limit of 140 characters gives the perfect amount of space to get the important details across while not giving too much room to stray off topic. One of the highlights of this project is that a Twitter account is NOT required to utilize this feature. The messages can be viewed by RSS feed, Sidebar on the guilds website, and of course on Twitter.

All "tweets" posted on the guild forums are under the account @WKto - The format of all posts are in the format of [Username] - Message. This seems to be working out great so far. Usernames are pulled the current Session the user is logged into on the forums. I chose to do it that way because usually forum names tend to match up with in game names.

The feature has been released less then 36 hours ago, but already seems to be catching on. I believe in the coming weeks it will become a great addition to the website!