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Twitter Late Adopter

I joined Twitter a while back, didn't get the point, and cancelled my account.

Since then, a couple of different people (Alec Shobin @alecshobin and Miguel Sternberg @spookysquid) told me, "Dude, you've got to have a Twitter account."

Alec said I needed one for PR.

Miguel said I needed one to touch base with the game art community.

So, fine, fine, I got one: @happionlabs. I figured, I'll get one, but I'm hardly ever going to read my feed, because I won't have time.

Turns out I read my feed all the time. And I've learned and discovered useful stuff. It's definitely a time sink, but maybe worth it? One thing I've done differently this time is follow a whole bunch of people.

So now I'm on facebook, linkedin, G+ and this. How do you decide what to post where?

EDIT: That wasn't a rhetorical question! Really - how do you decide?

Have To Say *Something* About It...

Ignoring, for the moment, just how much money it'll make for everyone involved, it'll still dilute/weaken the Blizzard brand.

Mike Morhaime says that both Blizzard and Activision are committed to quality.  The thing is, Activision's idea of "Quality" is different than Blizzard's - Activision has a lower bar.

For one thing, if Activision was truly committed to quality they wouldn't do movie-license games - movie-license games, with their ironclad ship-dates, are the antithesis of quality.  When I was there, we did manage to make one good - but not great - one, and that was despite the terrain.

So now the Blizzard name is going to appear on Shrek 4?