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Time Waster - Fast140 aka "How Badly and Fastly can you type?"
Not soooooooo fast. Here comes Fast140.
What is it you ask? Well, it recycles tweets from Twitter and turns them into a speed typing game. No longer will you be testing your speed to mundane and correctly spelled sentences like "The dog ran quickly.", now you get stuck with winners like the one pictured above.
Uhhh, I'm sorry what? I have to type........."Hero" by Enrique Iglesias? YES, I did. Ugh! Now that's a time waster my friends. And I loved every damn second of it.
This gem of an app comes via Philip Kaplan, aka "Pud", the fellow who brought us ummm....Effed Company. I can say Effed, right? I got the inside scoop by pinging him on Twitter naturally:
This gem of an app comes via Philip Kaplan, aka "Pud", the fellow who brought us ummm....Effed Company. I can say Effed, right? I got the inside scoop by pinging him on Twitter naturally:
Brilliant behind the scenes information, thanks Philip.
I think that playcount will increase dramatically, don't you guys think?
It's actually a really cool idea and a nice use case for Twitter's recently released oAuth support. It just tweets for you once saying that you're trying out Fast140, and then all it does is track your scores for you after that.
Now go play, and post your top scores here in the comments!!!!!
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pud said 11:43AM on 4-14-2009
Thanks!
- pud
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Robert said 1:11PM on 4-14-2009
Drew, nice screenshot. Thanks for spreading blasphemy around Easter. Real class.
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Drew Olanoff said 1:13PM on 4-14-2009
I believe this fella was just tweetin' what he saw. Blame the Bunny.
Doranwen said 8:32PM on 4-20-2009
Aww, so it's not something I can try if I don't do Twitter. Drats.
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