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@Diablo refers to Blizzard's official Diablo twitter account, which [http://www.twitter.com/diablo can be viewed here].
The account went live in August 2009[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-joins-the-twitter-revolution/], and as of November 2010 it had posted over 600 tweets and had over 44,000 followers.
After a lot of initial skepticism over the utility of such a brief communication device, and some early misunderstandings[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/a-case-study-in-the-inherent-shortcomings-of-twitter/] brought about by the short character limits, the service has become fairly well-accepted by the fans.
[[Bashiok]] and some other community managers handle the account, and though its activity is often sporadic, with nothing posted for a week or more, the account keeps up a fairly regular intercourse with fans, answering short questions with quick answers, owing to Twitter's 140 character per message limit.
Fansite Diii.net posts news items which quote every game-related tweet, usually adding additional info to flesh out the brief replies.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/categories/category/twitter Seem them all here].
[[File:Twitter-diablo-11-22-10.jpg|center|thumb|600px|@Diablo as seen November 22, 2010. The [[Barbarian]] @ [[Bastion's Keep]] background image has been unchanged since the account went live.]]
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The account went live in August 2009[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-joins-the-twitter-revolution/], and as of November 2010 it had posted over 600 tweets and had over 44,000 followers.
After a lot of initial skepticism over the utility of such a brief communication device, and some early misunderstandings[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/a-case-study-in-the-inherent-shortcomings-of-twitter/] brought about by the short character limits, the service has become fairly well-accepted by the fans.
[[Bashiok]] and some other community managers handle the account, and though its activity is often sporadic, with nothing posted for a week or more, the account keeps up a fairly regular intercourse with fans, answering short questions with quick answers, owing to Twitter's 140 character per message limit.
Fansite Diii.net posts news items which quote every game-related tweet, usually adding additional info to flesh out the brief replies.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/categories/category/twitter Seem them all here].
[[File:Twitter-diablo-11-22-10.jpg|center|thumb|600px|@Diablo as seen November 22, 2010. The [[Barbarian]] @ [[Bastion's Keep]] background image has been unchanged since the account went live.]]
[[category:Blizzard]]