I love conferences.
The excitement of meeting new people, learning new things, and eating free food.
Yet all of those pale in comparison to getting my tweet on-screen.
Oh the joy in seeing my amazing remark, “Hi Mom,” available to the masses is something that money can’t buy.
Well, that’s actually true.
The software they use at these conferences to search through the twitterverse for those special hashtags is free, and there’s quite a few options to read the Tweeting’s On the Wall.
Tweetexposure.com
I like the feel of being stuck on the island from LOST and still being able to check out what Eric is tweeting about.
Anothertweetonthewall.com
There’s something to be said for having your small avatar blown up to the size of 747. This one also has a fun rotating wheel of names when switching between tweets.
Visibletweets.com
Visible Tweets has three great transition themes to choose from. The transitions may actually be more entertaining than the tweets themselves.
Twitterfountain.com
If you’re looking for customization and the ability to pull backgrounds from a specific source, then come to the fountain.
Consider yourselves armed and dangerous for the next conference you host. Maybe start coming up with some creative tweets, so you don’t end up like me, professing love for my mother.
So, how do you like your tweets on the wall?
Wouldn’t this be interesting to use during a Church service?
[Image via wonderferret]
Joanna says
These can be a lot of fun but also go hilariously wrong. At a young adults conference I went to, they were displaying tweets on the big screen before and after sessions. We were meant to be tweeting about what we were learning. Instead, some people seized the opportunity to use it for other purposes. Some people decided to use it to try to get their single friends hooked up. It is amazing how many of a persons positive attributes you can fit into a tweet!
Eric Dye says
True. They need to develop something like this that has an approval cue system.
Matt Pugh says
We had a similar thing happen at a conference I was at. Apparently there was a conference going on in Germany using the same hashtag at the same time, so our feed kept getting German tweets in it. Someone translated the German and found out they were telling their people to ignore our tweets. Funny, because we were way more active with the tag.
Eric Dye says
Crazy!