Have you ever been at a concert and wondered what the rest of the audience is thinking? Or been at a presentation and had a good point to add? Or at a nightclub and wanted to request a song but not deal with the security surrounding the DJ? Well, there’s a great way to do all this and more.
Connecting Twitter to TVs or projecting it on a screen at your events will add a whole new level of audience participation. Plus, you can grow your list of followers at every event. Creating a live Twitter feed to aggregate tweets sent to users, from users, or including keywords or hashtags can be quite a task.
You can run a real-time search using TweetDeck but it isn’t really optimized for screen and your audience will be squinting.
You can try to build your own Twitter feed widget but it’s a pretty daunting task involving JQuery, JavaScripting, CSS and HTML knowledge.
There’s an easier way. StreamTwitter is a little script designed for streaming tweets in real-time to any video source. Just open the script, change your search term, switch the graphics to be your own (optional) and connect your laptop to your video source. It’s optimized for TV screen resolution and looks amazing. It updates automatically with beautiful jQuery sliding effects. It can filter out bad words if desired. It is the easiest and best way to have a live Twitter feed streaming tweets including your desired search term at your events. It also comes with easy-to-follow instructions and 3 months of support if you have any questions.
If you’ve got experience with StreamTwitter, or any questions, please feel free to share in the comments!
I signed up for StreamTwitter a few weeks ago to try it at one of my networking events, the audience reaction was sooo huge that I’ve used it at every event since. I’m not very good with computers, so I had a couple questions regarding setup and they responded within 5 minutes to my ticket! Amazing. Looking forward to seeing this app develop as with Twitter.
@BrutusReport
I had a pretty good time watching the Affiliate Summit 2010 stream from time to time over the course of the recent conference. Learned about the parties at night and what was happening in between the sessions.
StreamTwitter is a little script designed for streaming tweets in real-time to any video source. Just open the script, change your search term, switch the graphics to be your own (optional) and connect your laptop to your video source.
@Digital_Darren
There is another Twitter visualization tool I have been using for a while now. It’s free, runs off Flash, and looks pretty nice.
Simply go to http://www.tweetviz.com and type in the search term (or event hashtag) you want, and bingo! Looks even better when you then run your browser in full screen mode.
I understand this was a free community service one of the clever gang from Deloitte Australia did to demonstrator their innovation skills and cool funkiness.