Anyone who tells you Twitter is societal media ’s airless approximation to hell on Earth is utterly , unimpeachably right . This is , after all , the company that adjudicate to deal with its theatrical role in a rising tide of digital fascism by swear a lily-white supremacist , and doubling the amount of space anyone can use to exclaim racial name at strangers .
Arguments that 280 characters are an unnecessary freshness are overpoweringly valid . But there is a small , pure sliver of good in it : Now there ’s enough tweetspace to play a board game :
People are literally act Connect Four on my timeline now .
280 characters was a mistake.pic.twitter.com/unO16YgPlm
— VGBC ║ Jdawg @ ? ? ? ( @Jdawg926)November 8 , 2017
link up Four seem to be among the first board games to make a debut on Nü Twitter , and while regrettably this Connect Four match was adraw , it also opens up the possibility for Checkers , using the same character . Better yet , Unicode supports small graphical representations of chess slice in both color .
see me in a tangible twitter game◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ ♜ ♞ ♝ ♛ ♚ ♝ ♞ ♜ ◼️ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ◼️ ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
— Ryan Ken ( @RyanKenGG)November 9 , 2017
https://twitter.com/embed/status/928711757987794946
Others have tried using Twitter as a chess - by - mail alternative , but when it get along to organizing the instrument panel , I in person encounter the “ white shogi man ” unicode symbol : ☖ , worked better for representing clean spaces . While there are spate of “ white box”-type fibre , none seemed to be the same breadth as the chess pieces .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/928677022188146688
Not long after that tweet , my friend Jack replied ( e7 - e6 ) and we ’ve spiel about eight motion each so far . Neither of us are particularly esurient or skilled chess player , but it ’s been one of the few positive fundamental interaction I can recall having on Twitter recently . Feel free to copy that add-in and begin your own game if you need a break from the deluge of micro - pundits , bad news , and angry jerked meat .
So far , nobody ’s had luck make a Go card . If you have other games you conceive could work on in a 280 - character tweet — if you have or any approximation what gamethisis theorize to be — get us be intimate below .
Update : I ’m a grown idiot . Chess is still nice though .
Update : This rules :
Marine biology twitter - chess . With a new nautical biology fact every time a piece of music is make a motion , and a scientifically accurate death scene when a piece is use up . in truth the best function of#280charactersI’ve reckon yet.https://t.co/JIDc9U2idY
— Erika Nesvold ( @erikanesvold)November 10 , 2017
Update : common people , we ’ve got Shogi and Go !
9X9 Go , anyone ? I ’ll act lily-white . ┌ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┐ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ◆ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ◇ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┼ ┤ └ ┴ ┴ ┴ ┴ ┴ ┴ ┴ ┘
— Jason Morris ( he / him) 💻 ⚖ ️ 🇨 🇦 ( @RoundTableLaw)November 10 , 2017
https://twitter.com/embed/status/929201738799652864
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