Join in with the Twitter drama event of the year today at 2pm. How? here’s how: 
- Watch at our ‘theatre’ — http://beanstalk.twitpanto.co.uk/ set by Matthew Sommerville where the cast and audience are helpfully separated.
- Go “full on chaos” and try to follow the #twitpanto hasthag in Twitterfall or your favourite client.
- Wimp out and watch the Twitter list of the cast only (you’ll miss out on the audience). You need to follow it yourself to see all the Tweets.
Don’t forget it’s up to you to join in proper panto-style — tag your tweets #twitpanto and have fun. Here’s your final cast:
| @probablydrunk |
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Jack Ndthe-Beanstalk |
An entrepreneurial lad with big balls but little sense. |
| @cataspanglish |
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Gideon The Giant |
A member of the Big Society. |
| @benjiw |
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Mrs Nadine Ndthe-Beanstalk |
A single mum. |
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| @tom_watson |
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The Butcher |
Cow killer, bean pusher. |
| @bounder |
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The Princess |
An unattainable beauty. |
| @graphiquillan |
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Assangelina |
A Good Fairy, can’t keep a secret. |
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| @jonhickman |
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The front end of Daisy the cow |
A cow |
| @philipjohn |
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The back end of Daisy the cow |
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| @gavinwray |
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the Ghost |
A warning from the future. |
| @swearynews |
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The Chicken that lays the golden eggs |
You’d swear if you had to pass something that hard and cold. |
| @mazzawoo |
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The Magic Harp |
Unlimited music downloads. |
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| @Daneed4 |
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Romeo |
Young starcrossed lovers, who would usually use Facebook |
| @karmadillo |
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Juliet |
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| @cybrum @dracos @Mandyrose1 @getgood |
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The #pantouncut protestors |
A small group infiltrated by anarchists. |
| @Jenny_Drew @chrisunitt |
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The Riot Police |
Just following orders. |
(original photo by clairelu)
Join the cast, starring:
@probablydrunk as Jack
@philipjohn as the back end of the cow
@tom_watson as the butcher
@cataspanglish as the Giant
@Benjiw as Mrs NdtheBeanstalk
and introducing:
@swearynews as the chicken that lays the golden eggs
and many many more.
Get hold of the Twibbon if you so wish:
or “teh green shoots of recovery”.
Date TBC, but it will be an afternoon performance week commencing 20th Dec.
No promises, but if you’d like a part sign up here”
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.
Click here and tweet for Twitpanto to win a Shorty Award…
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.
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:
I wrote a huge long blog post all about how #twitpanto came into being. It’s here.
