FarmVille on Twitter can be followed under the username zfarmville. The Twitter account is used primarily to make announcements concerning the game and to provide information and clues for game players. Recent tweets from the account have held contests for Farm Cash and provided links to the game’s weekly Podcast on YouTube. As of the start of the third quarter of 2010, it is being followed by more than 145,000 people. The FarmVille account on Twitter is only following 8 people, including the accounts of its software manufacturer Zynga and the video games Vampire Wars and Mafia Wars. http://twitter.com/zFarmVille

FarmVille is a social online game that lets players grow crops, raise animals, put up buildings, and visit other players’ environments, while earning coins to “unlock” items that help them advance. http://www.farmville.com/ Coins and cash can also be purchased through PayPal, credit cards, and mobile phones. The game originally launched in June 2009 and became one of the most popular applications on Facebook, garnering 49 million users since its release. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23749479-futurology-farmville-on-facebook.do It can also be accessed on the iPhone and on the game’s website.

Players who are lost or stumped by the game can find support in the forums on the FarmVille website. There users can ask one another for assistance in reaching certain areas of the game. Suggestions for how to improve the game can also be made through the forums. http://forums.zynga.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91

To follow the FarmVille Twitter account, you simply need to click on the button that says “Follow” under the account username. Once you follow FarmVille, you will automatically see the tweets from the game account in your Twitter Feed. You can also respond to a tweet from FarmVille by replying to @zfarmville. If you’d like to see the tweets that were posted before you began following FarmVille, visit the game’s Twitter profile and click the “More” button at the bottom of the page. You can also sign up for an RSS Feed of FarmVille’s tweets to see them in your web browser toolbar as soon as they are posted. http://twitter.com/zFarmVille