A birdie in golf is a score of one stroke under Par on a given hole and comes from the 19th century American slang term "bird", meaning anything excellent. Add the "tw" for Twitter and you get Twirdie!
How does it work?
Simple! Type a word and Twirdie finds out how many times that word was tweeted in the past 60 seconds. That number is how far your ball goes.
What are some of the features?
Unlock each of the 9 challenging courses as you play over grass, sand, and sea. Play golf in a new and exciting way by accessing live "up-to-the-minute" data via Twitter. The only way to play with what the world is talking about right now.
Where did Twirdie come from?
Twirdie is a collaboration between recent Parsons graduates Kurt Bieg, a 2010 IGF nominated game designer (see Halcyon for the iPad) and, Ramsey Nasser who recently developed Zajal, a unique creative coding language.