Tweet2Play launches Slot Machine on Twitter

Red 5 Games, an Austin-based casual games developer, has launched Tweet2Play for Twitter, a classic style three-reel slot machine game that plays in the 140 character text-based world of Twitter. Here’s how it works: users follow Tweet2Play on Twitter, wait for instructions from the site and start off with 25 free “spins.” To play those spins, users will send a direct message to Tweet2Play with the word “SPIN” and the site makes a spin for you and sends you the result. Every time you win, the site sends a link with a chance to win a real prize.

Users can earn extra spins by including “#Tweet2Play” in an update to get credit. The site will send users a note with a thank-you and the number of free spins it has added. The number of free spins per update is determined by the number of followers you have. Getting help and figuring out your ranking is handled by sending direct messages to Tweet2Play with the commands “HELP or “RANK” to get the desired result.

Get started by visiting www.twitter.com/tweet2play.

GamerDNA’s TweetMyGaming tames Twitter

GamerDNA wants its users to have a better user experience when using Twitter - especially when trying to find tweets that are game related. As you probably know, it’s a pain in the ass sifting through all your tweets to find specific people or topics, and while there are plenty of applications to help you o that, GamerDNA’s solution for its users is probably one of the first game related ones.

Launched at E3 2009, that solution is called TweetMyGaming.com, and it aggregates the video game conversations happening on Twitter in real-time. The site is powered by the GamerDNA Helix API which also provides game trend data from its web site. TweetMyGaming uses keywords (titles of games) that are scanned from the GamerDNA Helix API and then displayed by order of popularity.

Tweets and play patterns of games are also charted and graphed to show the trends that are happening at the moment. This enables you to see what games people are talking about and excited by, in real-time. Percentages on the homepage also show the increases or decreases in tweets for a particular game. Players’ attention numbers found on each game page are based off of GamerDNA data pulled from our API.

You can check it out by visiting TweetMyGaming.com. You don’t need to sign up for GamerDNA to use it, but you probably should because the service offers the best editorial content on the planet: OURS.