Twitter shuts down the ability to play games in tweets

It was fun while it lasted. But Twitter decided that users shouldn’t be able to play classic MS-DOS games within the app. This unintended feature was said to violate the “rules of engagement” of the site. Twitter hasn’t allowed developers yet to host rich applications within its social network so the shutdown doesn’t come as a surprise.

Source: VentureBeat | Via: Gizmodo

You can play classic MS-DOS games in tweets

Here’s a special treat on Twitter. If you paste URLs of the MS-DOS games Internet Archive has up into a tweet, you’ll be able to play it right from the tweet. You will have to view the embedded game on web version of Twitter. Hello time suck, we meet again. Enjoy!

Well, we can now embed playable Internet Archive games into tweets, so: https://t.co/sMZwcB5nAN

— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) April 29, 2015

Source: Wired