14 DAY TRIAL // Some people just can't gen enough of Twitter and, apparently, the countless number of Twitter clients for every platform imaginable, PC, mobile even game consoles, still isn't enough. It seems that more and more Internet users were in a bit of a conundrum – they wanted to keep up with their friends and current events on Twitter, but at the same couldn't leave their World of Warcraft (WoW) guild facing the Friday night raid without the crucial second healer. What's better than replacing an Internet addiction with another one? Keeping them both, as now you can send and receive Twitter messages from inside the game, courtesy of TweetCraft.
“TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft, the wildly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. If you're a WoW player you might like it because you can send and receive tweets in-game, upload screenshots to TwitPic, automatically tweet when you get an achievement, and more,” as explained by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone himself.
While the need for the application is debatable, its technical achievements are not. Making a full-featured in-game Twitter client for WoW is apparently no small feat, especially since the add-ons for the online game are forced to work with some very limited capabilities. That is why TweetCraft is actually made up of two components – the proper WoW add-on that handles the in-game interface and a separate app running in the background doing the heavy lifting. It's this second app that connects to Twitter and does all of the necessary communications.
But this split has some users worried as Blizzard, the company behind the popular online game, has blocked third-party apps that interacted with the game before; however, the makers of the add-on believe they're in the clear when it comes to violating the Terms of Service. Then again, most other third-party WoW app developers who got their add-ons blocked believed the same thing.