#twitpanto – where’s the backchannel? it’s behind you

Webby winning Twitpanto!

While it’s not made the final shortlist of five, there’s still a bit to be proud of as Twitpanto has been made an Honoree (US spelling) in the 2010 Webby Awards in the Net Art category.

As that shortlist includes big budget projects like BBC Blast, I don’t think we’ve done badly seeing as it was one crash hot web guy (that’s Matt, not me) and 20 odd (very) Twitterers on a cold December afternoon (which you can relive, of course, here).

In speech mode, we couldn’t have done it so well without the support of the Birmingham Hippodrome — or the hundreds of people that joined in during the play. Sincere thanks for going along with it.

To read all about both Twitter panto experiences there are a couple of long and detailed posts here.

Twitpanto up for a Shorty Award

Click here and tweet for Twitpanto to win a Shorty Award…

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The Shorty Awards are awards for the best producers of “short, real-time content” — by which they mean tweets. Now, what is better on Twitter than a panto?

Vote for us in the “art” category, we’re ahead as we speak — the panel, bizarrely, seems to include MC Hammer.

It’s in front of you…

The extremely clever Matthew Somerville has built this “set” for Twitpanto 2009 — it’s fantastic.

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Twitpanto ’09

No full cast or story yet, but already the stars are clamouring for a part:

The Birmingham Hippodrome are sponsoring this year — they’re building us a proper set & will have some tickets to the real panto to give away.

You want in? Either leave a comment here, you’ll need to be free on the afternoon of Friday the 18th December:

Explaining Twitpanto

I wrote a huge long blog post all about how #twitpanto came into being. It’s here.