Buzz Tweeting

Introducing Buzz-Tweeting: a new Twitter-based game to help you procrastinate.

Buzz-tweeting pits your word crafting skills against others in a challenge to see how many new followers you can gain with a single tweet.

The underlying principle of buzz-tweeting is that many people (and robots) automatically follow the authors of tweets that contain specific keywords. Your job is to exploit this knowledge and construct a tweet accordingly.

The rules of buzz-tweeting are:

• You must have had no new followers in the 30 minutes preceding the tweet.
• Your tweet must use sentences, a list of keywords is not allowed.
• You must include the #buzztweets hashtag at the end of your tweet.
• Your tweet must not contain any additional hashtags.
• Your tweet must not contain the usernames of other Twitterers (with or without the @ symbol).
• People, place, and event names are not allowed.
• All attempts should come from the same account. No testing of keywords on other accounts before you use them.
• Your new follower count starts at the moment you tweet, and finishes either at the time of your next tweet or when 30 minutes elapse — whichever comes first.

For example, my first buzz-tweet (rated a 7 follower) was: “we need a holistic approach to website design. A paradigm shift from web 2.0 to a more semantic, webinar oriented blogosphere #buzztweets”

If you get a good result, don’t forget to tell others via #buzztweets.

Happy buzz-tweeting!

(a collaboration by @aceyogi, @phelo, and @stenvoon)