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Twitter viral phenomenon Spymaster coming to iPhone

Spying, assassinating and spamming in one handy app

Twitter viral phenomenon Spymaster coming to iPhone
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Spymaster may already be known to you, either through a new and unhealthy addiction to the Twitter-based RPG game, or because you're being spammed with #spymaster tweets.

Either way, it's pretty big news that the social networking phenomenon is coming to the iPhone courtesy of the online classifieds service and creator of the game, iList.

For the uninitiated, Spymaster plays a lot like iMob Online (and other strategy RPGs of the like) in which you join either the CIA, FSB or MI6, then attempt to recruit spies (your followers on Twitter who aren't yet playing the game) into spymasters (followers who are playing).

The game automatically updates your Twitter stream with not-so-top secret activities; earning you money for assassinations of other spys, increasing your spy ring and a bunch of other spook tasks.

TechCrunch picked up a secret communique from the game's creator Eston Bond (yep, that's his real name) that Spymaster is coming to the iPhone very soon. It's a game that's courted fanatical devotion and controversy in equal measure, so get your rain coat out of the closet and cut two eye holes in your newspaper to keep a descrete watch on Spymaster's progress.
Spanner Spencer
Spanner Spencer
Yes. Spanner's his real name, and he's already heard that joke you just thought of. Although Spanner's not very good, he's quite fast, and that seems to be enough to keep him in a regular supply of free games and away from the depressing world of real work.