Well, for one, spamming nonsense has gotten me more followers! Well, maybe the new hashtag trend for the day, #ims211, had something to do with it. But only maybe! Let me break it down for you. Early this morning (Around 10-11 hours ago) Sean C. Duncan, (@scd) a professor of interactive media studies at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, tweeted…

“Hey, if you work in games, can you tweet hi to my class (#ims211)? I wanna make a point about Twitter and the game dev world.“

More or less, it was a hit (but is NOT trending…yet) and just from it, I’ve found a wealth of followers and followees, all of whom work in, want to work in, or are in school for gaming. And, while originally asking for developers of the medium, many others (including myself) threw in to the mix soon after.

Gaming journalists, gaming enthusiasts, gaming marketeers, and who knows who else all networked together around #ims211 and it’s still going strong as an interesting point about today’s social networking and interactive media. Hell, someone went as far to create a website just for #ims211. I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty awesome, and this is the kind of thing Twitter was created for. This easily shows the power of social networking at its best and if you were wary of twitter before, this could change your mind.

So, what does it all really mean? Well, there’s no super-secret behind it. It was (is) a fantastic way for the gaming community to see all the developers, big or small, as well as others who work with games. It was a social experiment to prove a point and it grew bigger than the original creator planned and, in the end, everyone wins.

So, follow me on Twitter, because #ims211 says you should!