Have you been feeling a bit woozy lately? Are you noticing droplets of blood staining your shirt collar? Do you find yourself shying away from anything with garlic in it? If you meet any of these criteria, chances are you’ve received a #vampirebite from a Twitter Vampire.

Start Biting!

Twitter Vampire is a Twitter-based game where friends can bite each other virtually and earn points for doing so. The more people you bite, the more points you get. The Twitter Vampire website hosts a leaderboard showing who has bitten the most people and who has been bitten the most.

When a user goes through the Twitter Vampire website and bites someone else, an update is sent from the biter’s Twitter account to let friends know that they’ve been bitten.

What’s the Point?

So what is the point of all of these vampire bites? There isn’t one. You can equate #vampirebite tweets with throwing sheep on Facebook (or the most-likely-similar vampire biting application that also plagued Facebook users).

The hashtag factor in this application is that every single tweet sent out related to the game gets tagged with #vampirebite. Outside of people asking what the hashtag is for, I don’t see a lot of conversation taking place around it. The site was designed by Gray Tartlet for what we can only assume was an experiment in design and utilizing Twitter as an interactive platform.

Watch #vampirebite on What the Hashtag

You can follow @VmpTw on Twitter to stay up with all the bites or watch the #vampirebite hashtag page to see how many fall victim to this ghoulish game.

For the sake of Twitter’s Trending Topics, I hope this game doesn’t catch on. I’m not against games using hashtags on Twitter, but the way in which they are using them here just isn’t adding any sort of value.