Ongoing chronicling of how folks are using social media, especially Twitter, for forms of storytelling …
“Choose Your Own Adventure” has long seemed to me to fall somewhere between storytelling and gaming. Jonah Peretti is using Twitter for a “Choose Your Own Adventure” activity.
As Mashable describes the activity
… it’s basically a written work which allows the reader to make choices that affect the storyline, creating a tree-shaped narrative structure. You enter a dark cave: do you want to a) explore the cave or b) turn away? Depending on which one you choose, you’ll be sent to a different page in the book, and the story continues.
The first opportunity for choices was posted last Friday:
You’re assigned a dangerous mission to save the world! Do you
1) http://bit.ly/Accept-Mission or
2) http://bit.ly/Go-On-Vacation
I’ve got to admire the intricacies of setting something like this up on Twitter.