Comment 27 January 2015: This post is more than 3 years old, but it still gets many daily views. It’s great you guys still find it useful! Let me encourage you to check the comments section, too, because you’ll find many more services for streaming social media content at your event! Cheers, Michael
For a number of reasons, Twitter and events are a good match:
- Before the event, it is a great tool to spread the word about the contents of your event (speakers, topics etc.), to engage and to connect with potential attendees.
- During the event, it is perfect to add a virtual component to your conference or meeting, by linking the real life audience with the tweeps out there.
- It is also great to collect feedback, questions, do polls during the event.
- After the event, it allows you to refer back to useful content like slides, videos, blog summaries etc. You can also track and analyze who took part in the discussions, what the sentiment was, what you can improve and what was particularly appreciated.
- It is a perfect foundation to create a post-conference review, using Storify. Check out this example from the Emerge Conference 2011 in Oxford.
In order to motivate the delegates to join in the Twitter discussion and to demonstrate what happens in parallel on Twitter, it is a good idea to show the live feed on site. There are a number of tools out there that facilitate this, and most of them are free!
Twitterfountain.com
This tool can be customized regarding backgrounds, colors, pictures, speed of display. We used it at the recent World Newspaper Congress in Vienna. It is a good tool, and you just have to go to the website, make our adjustments like twitter keyword, hashtag, animation type, background colors, you click on full screen and you’re done. You can also embed the Twitterfountain on your own website.
Visibletweets.com
A bit more artistic, from my point of view, with less options but a very nice visualization. Takes maybe 5 seconds to set up, click on “View full screen”, done!
Tweetwally.com
This is a more static implementation, but it allows you to enter some text at the side and display your own twitter handle. Easy to set up, too, good readability. Nothing fancy, the tweets are in the focus rather than a creative display.
Triqle “What’s on?”
This is actually a mobile platform for your event that offers a lot of features, like a web app to display real time program information, mobile voting or narrowcasting on screens around the show. You can also use it to display tweets during the event, which the guys from ICCA did at their Congress in Leipzig. It comes at a price, but it is quite affordable.
Twitterfall
Another free, simple, easy-to-use tool that displays tweets at your wall.
TweetBeam
Nice service, displaying the tweeps’ pics in the background automatically.
This solution goes a step further and allows you to create a custom dashboard with event branding, sponsor branding, and automatic display of twitpics. The cost is between 1 and 2 USD per day and attendee, depending on the features.
Most of those services allow tweet display based on hashtags, keywords, Twitter names, or even a combination of those.
Don’t forget to determine a good event hashtag well in advance, start using it yourself as an organizer and notify your audience about it.
Your hashtag should be
- unique (check if any other conference or topic use it)
- as short as possible (not taking up too much of the 140 characters)
- intuitive.
Click to tweet: 7 tools to project a twitter stream at your event http://bit.ly/1b14PPv #eventprofs #smm #eventtech #engage365
Great post, Michael. If I may… here is my post on the pro’s and con’s of using a Twitter Wall. http://personalbrandingforgenxandboomers.blogspot.com/2011/10/twitter-walls-at-conferences.html
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Hey Micheal, nice post! You should also take a look at TweetBeam! http://www.tweetbeam.com/show?query=tweetbeam
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Hi Michael, great post. Thanks!
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Visibletweets is pretty cool. Visual simplicity often outweighs additional features.
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Another great way to present a live Twitter stream at an event is Postano. Postano is a social media aggregator that can stream Twitter hashtags in a visually engaging and interactive way that is sure to encourage the audience to engage with the event. http://www.postano.com/blog/social-media-displays-for-events
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I use another cool way to present Twitter posts from Prezi: SAP (a free tool to generate backchannels for professional and educational events).
Follow the installing instructions here: http://timoelliott.com/blog/prezi-twitter-tools
Access my backchannel: http://prezi.com/vvc3y2vdj8am/edumorfosis-backchannel/ (just type a hashtag on ‘prezi’ row)
It’s very effective way to chat with others at online congress, workshops and streamings.
¡I recommend it!
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Thanks Michael for this listing of application.
Because none of the application you mention allows the organizer to moderate Tweets before being displayed, I would like to add this one :
LiveTweetApp – http://www.livetweetapp.com helps you aggregate, moderate and display tweets on a big screen during your event.
The main added value for you is in the moderation, where you keep control of what’s displayed. Of course, features such as customization are included.
Hope you’ll like it.
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Hello,
Does anyone know of a program that can do the same thing for Facebook?
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Enplug.com supports Facebook, Instgram, Twitter, Foursquare/Swarm, and Yelp
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this tool supports facebook and allow moderation
http://www.liveview.social
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Hi Michael,
I would like to add an app suggestion – Tweet Us, http://tweetusapp.com. This is an iOS Twitter live streaming app with moderation and customization. Using a video adapter for your iPad or iPhone you can use it to display the Twitter stream on a screen or projector.
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http://www.tintup.com/blog/the-best-twitter-wall-display/
http://www.tintup.com/blog/the-best-instagram-wall-display/
With Tint, you can easily organize Twitter and Instagram walls for your events to create a social hub which will display all tweets and pictures with the selected event hashtag updated in REAL TIME. check it out!
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Been using Twitterfountain before but they’re down. Visible tweets look great! Thanks!
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Here´s another tool: TwitterOnEvent. Also support text messages. Worth checking out!
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Forgot the URL: http://www.flashgressive.de/twitter-nachrichten-auf-ihrem-event-anzeigen/
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Alternatively, you can package the tweet stream INTO your event app. Confui allows event organisers to do this, making it easier for delegates to keep up with what others are saying all from the palm of your hand.
http://www.confui.com/features
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If you want to stream pictures of your event live on your big screen, you can check sharypic’s photowall : https://www.sharypic.com/en/features/live-photowall-slideshow.
Also you can reuse your photo stream to embed it on your website as a slideshow, or as a grid.
We also provide a live print module : it lets you plug printer (post-card format) and automatically print photo tagged on Twitter or Instagram.
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Reblogged this on Engineers and geeks.
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Good tips. We are using tweezio.com, did you try this one?
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Great Post Michael! A good way to display a visual Twitter wall on events is Pindle. http://www.getpindle.com/
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Wow, looks exciting! Thanks for the link!
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Now you can use Pindle to display a Twitter + Instagram wall
http://getpindle.com/twitter-wall/
http://getpindle.com/instagram-wall/
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Hi Michael,
Another great option designed specifically for live events is Crowd Convergence: http://www.crowdconvergence.com
You can capture, filter and integrate social media content into live events and marketing campaigns in real-time. Filters and manual moderation give you complete control over what is on screen and when to show it. You can change the design of the output using different Widgets and adding colours, logos etc.
You can take a look and trial at: http://www.crowdconvergence.com
Disclaimer: I work at Crowd Convergence.
Thanks!
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Tweet Monsters is a Free Twitter Wall ideal for presentations, conferences, exhibitions, product launches and many other corporate and social events. It allows you to display twitter feeds based on any search term using @names, hashtags or keywords in a unique and eye catching manner. Using your Twitter account makes life easier for you, no frustrating sign up forms or additional usernames and passwords to remember. Check it out today – tweetmonsters.com
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nice post michael..you may as well look at tweet beam..i would like to say the most iconic and largest Customized Trade show Apps used to collect valuable perception and to personalize their experience with a Mobile Apps. The mobile brand, Panel and it features are published in tradeshow mobile events.
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We just released ShowTweets, a free Twitter Wall visualizer that looks amazing!
You should check it out: http://www.showtweets.com
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Absolutely fantastic post shame it is slightly outdated now! Me and my brother setup our twitter display tool http://www.feistybird.com check it out we setup about 7 months ago. We are free in beta currently and always constantly updating on a weekly basis.
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Hi Michael!
Let me also recommend our solution Yarr TV for displaying Twitter tweets and photos on screens: feel free to contact@yarr.tv if we can help 🙂 https://www.yarr.tv/features/twitter-tweets-wall/
Cheers!
Rafa Roda @ Yarr TV
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This was an excellent article, especially for the time. That’s obvious by it’s continued prominence in Google searches despite its age. Thanks for acknowledging the more recent services which have sprung up, and for allowing folks like me to comment and add our two cents (not to mention our own solutions).
Speaking of which, we’ve built a PowerPoint add-in at https://www.liveslides.com/examples/twitter/ that makes it super easy to embed a Twitter feed (any web content really) directly in PowerPoint. Seriously, just a couple steps and you’re ready to roll.
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today i think RPS will win
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I couldn’t find anything for free where I could moderate tweets so only the ones I approved went live on the wall… so I’ve just launched Mod Tweet Wall (https://tweetwall.jake4maths.com) which lets you do all of that for free!
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If you are promoting your Social-Wall at live Events it´s highly recommended that you have the options for live moderation and filtering your collected Social-Media Content to prevent spam.
With https://www.flypsite.com you can collect almost all Social-Media-Channels with full real time moderation and filtering options, have a look!
Regards
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We used social live for our wedding at it worked out pretty well it allows for twitter and facebook and allows for moderation and you can choose to you the image images from the tweet as a background
check it out here
http://www.liveview.social/blog/61
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