What is ChumpDump?ChumpDump is a twitter friend management game. We all have friends on twitter, many of us have lots, like tons- ChumpDump is a game wrapped around the concept that odds are, you probably have alot of chumps in your firehose feed.
ChumpDump differs than other twitter friend analysis apps in that it turns the whole concept into a game, the lottery actually. Every day, you decide who gets dumped in your friend list. ChumpDump provides you with the details, it picks a lottery winner at random- then provides the analysis going back 30 days, giving you the data to help make your decision- are they chumps or should you pardon them?
What kind of analysis?
- # of replies to you
- # of RT’s they’ve done of your stuff
- # times they’ve DM’d you
- and their influence score (which may be like klout+twittergrader ish)
The Game
The game works by rewarding those that weed out their feed. Look do really need 5000 friends? Odds are you can barely follow 100. ChumpDump wants you to man-up! Dump a chump, we dare ya, in fact, we’ll even reward ya if ya do.
Points
You get karma points in game weeding our your friends. Every day when you dump a chump- you did a good thing, your karma goes up, and you get reward with less crap to follow on twitter. You lose points when you pardon people. That’s serious wuss material in our book- the game is to clean, get clarity, be free of all these 1000′s of friends not save them all. Manage your intake!
Adoption
When you dump a chump, they go up for adoption. Other people in game can get points by adopting them. But be careful, ChumpDump isn’t no idiot, if you dump a chump only to then adopt them again- ahhh we saw that- and down goes your karma again.
OVERRIDE!
ChumpDump revolves around a daily lottery that refreshes every 4hrs. You can however, if you have the karma for it use the manual override. Anyone that’s seen StarTrek knows the value behind the manual override button- its your key to insta-dumping. Dumping afterall increases your points, up goes your karma and there’s more rewards for that later on down the line.
Using the override has its own issues though. While most chumps start out with 5 vouchers (the required currency to use the override), players can get more by raising them karma and cashin in their points for more of them. You can also buy voucher packs (100 at a time) in the game, or pick up the unlimited versions of the game.
HOW it came to be.
ChumpDump was conceived in the last 3 hours at Startup Weekend Columbus 2010. Local social media strategist Rocky VanBrimmer (Senior Partner at Start Engaging Others) and Dan Rockwell (Co-Founder of BigKittyLabs) tossed around the idea for a half joke half real product, a game called ChumpDump. As conversations went on, the team clearly saw the real promise in the idea and with BigKittyLabs they produced a beta in just 30 days and after 3 months of internal testing- bam here we go, ChumpDump live for the masses.
Check out ChumpDump today available for Google Android and Apple iPhone.