Boredom Strikes On Twitter With Color!
Mar 19 2008 
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Tech news today has been relatively slow for me. More articles about FriendFeed and the many purchases that are being made today. Nothing all that new and exciting to really blog about or message on Twitter.
So, it seems that Ze Frank (Thanks to Armando Alves for notifying me) and a few others have decided to start a little game on Twitter. There’s a battle of colors taking place with “teams” of the colors red, green, yellow, blue, orange, FF1CAE, gold, off-white, and plaid (is that seriously a color?) are seeing which team can get the most followers. There’s even a no-team for those who refuse to play (though I don’t see the logic in that).
If this isn’t boredom, I don’t know what is, but at least it gives us something to do. I’m not joining any team, but if I were it would be red. If you spot any more teams in the wild leave a comment and I’ll add them! Why? Because I’m just as bored as you. =P
Here’s a breakdown of the number of followers each team has so far.
[Updated Thursday, March 20, 2008 @ 1:30 p.m. EST]
@veryGreenTeam – 774
@BlueTeam – 289
@OrangeTeam – 232
@Redteam – 159
@YellowTeam – 127
@FF1CAEteam – 164
@GoldTeam – 199
@Offwhiteteam – 95
@Plaidteam – 119
@Noteam – 176
@Fuchsia – 55
@TeamClear – 102
@PinkTeamgo – 27
@Whiteteam – 40
@Purple – 86
@StripeTeam – 35
@PuceTeam – 26
@rainbowteam – 101
@blackwatchteam – 59
@GammaRayTeam – 5
@ChartreuseTeam – 48
@greenredteam – 49
@BrownTeam – 19
@TeamTransparent – 53
@PussyPinkTeam – 145
@sepiateam – 16
@seethruteam – 6
@meatteam – 53
@Teamcoffee – 31
Technorati tags: twitter, color wars on twitter, color wars, ze frank
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As afar as i know, @zefrank started the whole thing. Who else to keep us busy with nonsense like this.
Everyone join @plaidteam Yea we must be bored today
After a late start, the Puce team (http://twitter.com/puceteam) is up to 14 followers, despite heavy recruitment efforts on tis leaders by Team Tartan
Added the Puce team!
lmao!! how cool…where do i sign up for the green team??? I see they have the most members lol. i woulda never supposed that. looks like green is rather popular after all!
In the coming Color Wars, there can be but one victor, and that victor shall be the Rainbow Team.
In the post-Color Wars world, Green (and veryGreen) will indeed have their place of honor… within the Greater Spectrum that is Rainbow Team.
We are vast. We contain multihues. Resistance is futile. We have already assimilated you.
ALL ONE. DIFFRACT! DIFFRACT!
@rainbowteam includes all colors.
inclusive. harmony.
peace.
make love, not war.
join.
There is also a Rainbow team, 82 strong. I remain unaffiliated.
Blackwatch Team for the win! And free beer!
http://twitter.com/blackwatchteam
SO SAY WE ALL!
Why mess around with the visible light spectrum? Go all out for @GammaRayTeam !
Corvida…I came over hoping to see your color wars choice only to find out you’re not playing. Still haven’t decided if I wanna join in the fun or not…
Wheres the Chartreuse love?
As of now, RainbowTeam numbers 109 prismatic soldiers. We aren’t listed in many places as we are all-inclusive, and some find our anti-segregationist policies threatening.
After all, where does blue end and green begin?
Where does aquamarine belong in the conflict?
With whom does sienna place it’s loyalty?
Within Mother Spectrum, all are accepted, regardless of the color of your color.
Don’t forget the only real Celts: @tartan – all those plaid phonies will realise that pretending to be Scottish (or irish) only gets you so far in life! :0
Defect and join the tartan!
I’d like to point out that you’ve linked the pink team to @FF1CAEteam which is totally different. @pinkteamgo! :)
@zefrank is organizing the ColorWars. We’re in the team picking stage right now, challenges are to come!
I’m staying very firmly colourless. Though I absolutely love Twitter, and I’m hopelessly addicted, there are lot of people there, who are, frankly, as boring as it’s possible for a human being to be..completely lacking in imagination, they simply post links and bang on endlessly about their work, their projects, applications, and all sorts of dull geekery..I’d rather someone told me they’d just eaten a burger, (though their having just eaten a chocolate mongolian nose flute would be more interesting), than be told some of the stuff I have to endure..
There is a place there for geekery, promotion and stuff, and I don’t mind a little, but some of these folks don’t seem to think about anything else, or have any kind of life..
Thank goodness I’ve got some interesting followers, some of whom, actually, have a sense of humour to boot, but I believe that if something is boring, as contributors, our job is to liven it up a bit..one of the basic tenets of Twitter is to mix and make friends, aquire followers and follow people, and that is something we all do in any case. I think it’s a little sad that collecting followers might be seen as a competitive activity..I don’t measure myself much, socially, but when I do, I don’t use the metric of friend number comparisons..no, forget colours, say something interesting, off the wall, or funny, and Twitter will get less boring, that is, if it becomes a little boring for you. Strikes me if you are bored, you simply need to go and do something more interesting for a while..It isn’t just everyone else’s fault..
George Bolam (aka tindle)
@seethruteam – the alpha channel…
Forget the @verygreenteam hype. Having done a mashup with their colors, which is like so Web 2.0, they certainly suck.
There’s now a @greenredteam , mostly followers from Portugal, with 38 and counting
You left out @sepiateam (“All other colors will fade!”) and also @meatteam, @teamcoffee, and an anatomically pink team that I won’t name.
@blueteam FTW!
what about chartreuse?
Added all of you and thanks for sharing!
If the Brazilians show up, then @teamVerdeAmarelo will kick all our asses.
Aqua Team at http://twitter.com/aquateam
Free your mind and get in the flow…