I know. It’s been out there for a while, but I just had to share it with you. Old Spice has been busy reinventing itself for a while now, but with their latest effort they have positioned themselves among the greater online campaigns ever if you ask me. After their ‘I’m on a boat’ commercials became a huge hit, their latest effort allowed you to ask the campaigns macho man Isaiah Mustafa any question via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The crew would select the best questions and make a movie straight away. This resulted in hundreds of video’s, answering the questions of random Twitter users, but also many celebs, like twitter founder Biz Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, Perez Hilton and Ashton Kutcher.
There is just to much out there, so I’m not even making a selection. Just go to the site and check them out! A brilliant piece of advertising.
In the digital era we live in, promoting your work is sometimes more important than paying for the product itself. Therefore the guys at Innovative Thunder have created ‘Pay With A Tweet‘. The concept is simple: You can download the product (i.e. books, music, movies etc.) for free after you tweet about it. Simple and effective. Just as we like it.
One of the major issues I have with Twitter is the enormous amount of bullsh*t tweets people post. They just clutter and cause interesting tweets to go by unnoticed. One thing is to unfollow these people, but that way they’ll never learn. In comes Noobtweet, Twitter’s evil twin.
With noobtweet you can let people anonymously know that they are bothering/boring you with useless tweets. Tweeting is micro-blogging, Noobtweet can be called micro-commenting. Get the Tweet ID and enter your comment via Noobtweet. The one you ‘Noobtweet’ will receive a mention in which is stated that he has been Noobtweeted, with a link to the comment.
I am already looking forward to the ‘Noobtweet 100′ of the most useless Twitter users! Let the bashing begin!!
After posting about TrendsMap earlier, I have bumped into two similar Twitter-based websites. The difference is these two don’t really track trends, they track emotions and feelings.
The first is WeFeelFine. WeFeelFine tracks feelings posted by people on Twitter. After opening the website, it litterally explodes onto the screen in about 1500 pieces, all representing a real emotion posted by real people (see bottom left). The color of each piece represents an emotion: happy positive feelings are bright yellow, sad negative feelings are dark blue, angry feelings are bright red, calm feelings are pale green, etc. Cool thing is that you can also narrow down the area it scans, which allows you to check the emotions in your city for example.
Twistori is based on WeFeelFine, and also checks a range of emotions spoken about on Twitter in real time (see right). Only difference is that Twistori appears in text. Cool extra is the free screensaver they offer for mac users.
It’s really interesting to see what people are doing with Twitter, turning it into projects wandering between technology and art. If you have any more tips like these, let me know!
Always wanted to know what is going on in your city all the time? Check out Trendsmap.com. Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. It allows you to see what people all over the globe are currently discussing. Pretty cool stuff! Now go get Subtielman up there!
Update: I heard some people had some troubles with the link in this post, so here it is again, and working this time. Be sure to click the link below!
Ok, just one more tribute then: This idea is just to brilliant not to share with you. Billietweets is a tribute to MJ using Twitter in real time. Brilliant idea! And now I finally know the lyrics…
