Tweet Roulette

Tweet Roulette was a simple game / web application I built for fun in just a few hours back in 2020.

The game was simple: you'd compose a Tweet, and when you submitted it to the app, the previous person's Tweet would be sent from your Twitter account. Then, the next time someone would submit a Tweet, your Tweet would be sent from their Twitter account.

Backstory

The best explanation of this project's backstory is the message I posted on the initial Product Hunt launch, back on September 20th, 2020:

I tried to publish a first version of Tweet Roulette as an iOS app back in April 2017, but as it turns out, Apple isn't a fan of the whole "gamble on what the previous person might've written without showing it to the user" type of thing. So after the app review came back negative, I said "screw it", and decided to drop the project.

However, last month I got bored and wanted a side-project to distract me from my other side-project. So I thought "hey, maybe I could just build this as a website/web app!"

A day later, Tweet Roulette was re-born from the ashes!

Admittedly, this is not the most constructive project ever. But I figured that somewhere amongst the jokes and the sh*tposts that will inevitably result from this, some Tweets to help promote personal projects and charities might also be found. And that, I hope, will make it all worth it.

Thanks for reading people - I hope you enjoy the app!

How it was actually used

In the facts, I think only about a dozen people ever used the app to submit a Tweet, and the vast majority of them were just promoting random online contests. 

It felt a bit sad that people weren't using it to make jokes and create a bit of fun chaos as I had thought it would, but hey, it wasn't a very serious project to begin with, so I didn't have high hopes to begin with.

I don't quite remember exactly when the project was shut down, but it was likely a year or two later.

If you're interested, you can still see the Product Hunt page for Tweet Roulette.