Lovers of online bingo and Twitter can rejoice as both have joined hands. The online social networking website has launched its first ever online gaming application and they decided to go with Bingo. The new application is called TwitterINGO and is being worked on by Definition 6, an interactive marketing agency based in Atlanta.

The new application is a desktop application that will use keywords instead of numbers, like the original game of bingo. Players will be given a set of twenty five keywords to play with. The keywords will come from a pool of keywords created from Tweets posted by those the player follows on Twitter.

Winners of the game do win money or prizes, just bragging rights for all of Twitter to see. The winner gets an “I Won TwitterINGO” bingo badge. The badge can be placed on twitter or other sites such as Facebook for friends to see.

Right now the game can only be played once a week on Tuesday at 3pm EST. Definition 6 commented: “Definition 6 looks forward to providing all Twitter fans and users with another engaging way to enjoy the micro-blogging site and to interact with their social networking community.”



- 2009-07-30