I wonder who would be interested in a little friendly competition using Skritter and Twitter.
The idea would be to learn the largest possible number of characters in a certain period of time. We can use the existing Skritter tweets to track people's progress.
Here are some proposed rules. What do you think?
1. We're on the honor system here, so grade yourself strictly; if you got a dot wrong, mark it as 2, and if you got more than a dot wrong, mark it as 1.
2. Set up Twitter notifications and post your Twitter ID on this thread. We'll all follow each other and see how we're doing.
3. At the end of the period, we'll see who has learned the most characters and who has reviewed the most items. We'll name a winner and runner-up in each category.
4. Winners get bragging rights. We can make a web page that glorifies them.
One problem is that people get their tweets on different days. I would propose a rule that says that we will total your most recent N tweets that fall before the competition deadline. For example, we could announce a competition today (March 24th) with a deadline of midnight EDT April 1st. That should be enough time for everyone to tweet twice, so we would take the sum of the two tweets prior to the deadline.
Sound fair? Who's in?
James (jww1066 on Twitter)