One of the World’s most popular social networking sites, Twitter, has come up with its first ever online gaming application- a brilliant one at that! TwitterINGO has been born and has been developed by Definition 6, an interactive marketing agency based in Atlanta, USA.

The free desktop application uses keywords rather than numbers being called; the 25 keywords given to the player comes from a pool of keywords developed from ‘tweets’ that are posted by those that the player is following.

As the bingo application is free, unfortunately you won’t be playing for cash rather the honour of having the ‘I won TwitterINGO’ badge which can be placed either on your twitter profile or on other social networking sites.

Currently the game is only played once per week at 8pm each Tuesday evening.

The marketing agency commented, “Definition 6 looks forward to providing all Twitter fans and users with another engaging way to enjoy the micro-blogging site and to interact with their social networking community”.

The bingo industry is on tenterhooks this afternoon in anticipation of the Government will (or not do) about the increased tax levels which are currently burdening the bingo industry.

Members of the bingo industry, MP’s and the public were so ruffled by the increase that they staged a protest outside Westminster, as they believe increasing tax from 15% to 22% is slowly killing the bingo industry.

It seems that week on week there are more announcements of bingo hall closures which insiders believe the tax rise is a key contributor to. If the tax were to be lowered again the financial strain on bingo halls throughout the UK would most certainly be lifted.

Gambling insiders believe that they are being unfairly treated as they pay a much higher tax rate than their sports and casino gambling counterparts.

There are a proposed total of five amendments to the finance bill, with results hopefully released by 6pm today.