Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Patrick
TEDxWaterloo Twitter Wall
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I was lucky enough to be invited to create a Twitter Wall for the TEDxWaterloo conference. This seemed like a great opportunity to create something brand new. Particularly a wall that respected the quantity and volume of the Twitter activity that hapens around a conference of this sort.
I came up with an (as yet unnamed) Twitter Wall based on the metaphor of speech bubbles. The system automatically picked up every Tweet mentioning TEDxWaterloo on the day of the event, about 1,000 of them. Each was turned into a graphical speech bubble and scrolled onto the screen. This provided an easy way for attendees, Twitter users or not, to get a sense of the active conversation that took place around the event.
update: check out the video on Vimeo.
5 Comments
February 27th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Gosh, I would have loved to attend TEDxWaterloo! Next time, for sure.
And your Twitter Wall is super cool.
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May 19th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
TEDxHomer would love a Twitterfall.
Is the code available? Our event is 9-10-11.
May 21st, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Unfortunately Kat the code isn’t packaged up to be shareable. There are a couple of simple online Twitter Walls you might want to take a look at this online tool though – http://visibletweets.com/
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