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It’s in front of you — #Twitpanto Today 2pm

Jon Bounds — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:03:55 +0000

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	as	Jack Ndthe-Beanstalk	An entrepreneurial lad with big balls but little sense.
@cataspanglish	as	Gideon The Giant	A member of the Big Society.
@benjiw	as	Mrs Nadine Ndthe-Beanstalk	A single mum.

@tom_watson	as	The Butcher	Cow killer, bean pusher.
@bounder	as	The Princess	An unattainable beauty.
@graphiquillan	as	Assangelina	A Good Fairy, can’t keep a secret.

@jonhickman	as	The front end of Daisy the cow	A cow
@philipjohn	as	The back end of Daisy the cow

@gavinwray	as	the Ghost	A warning from the future.
@swearynews	as	The Chicken that lays the golden eggs	You’d swear if you had to pass something that hard and cold.
@mazzawoo	as	The Magic Harp	Unlimited music downloads.

@Daneed4	as	Romeo	Young starcrossed lovers, who would usually use Facebook
@karmadillo	as	Juliet


@cybrum @dracos @Mandyrose1 @getgood	as	The #pantouncut protestors	A small group infiltrated by anarchists.
@Jenny_Drew @chrisunitt	as	The Riot Police	Just following orders.

Twitpanto 2010 — Monday 20th December at 2pm

Jon Bounds — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:52:55 +0000

(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:

Twitpanto 2010 — Jack and the Beanstalk

Jon Bounds — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:43:09 +0000

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”

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Webby winning Twitpanto!

Jon Bounds — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:10:24 +0000

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

Jon Bounds — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:31:03 +0000

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

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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…

Jon Bounds — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:42:09 +0000

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

Theatre Whale

Jon Bounds — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:29:04 +0000

Twitpanto ’09

Jon Bounds — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:34:42 +0000

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

Jon Bounds — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:06 +0000

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