Does anyone integrate with Twitter and interact with their followers in a more unique and personallised way? There is nothing wrong with displaying a users tweets on their own website but we are looking for ways to do something a bit more special, and, if possible, more interactive.

The first example that we came up with was grabbing a load of tweets on a certain subject.
As we were exibiting at a business exibition called Let’s Do Business, we decided to make a hub page to do with the exibition. This page included a Twitter feed that grabbed tweets mentioning @letsdobusiness1, @Switchplane (our company), #ldbe and #cloudpun.
The result of which can be seen here http://www.switchplane.com/ldb/

The Twitter feeds on the left updates itself in real-time (no need to refresh the page). If you would like, give us a tweet at @Switchplane and watch your tweet appear. There is javascript that refreshed the time the tweet was sent every 15 seconds or so, and new tweets are checked for about every 2 minutes (due to restrictions with the API).

We are also working on some code to check if people have retweeted statuses, are following us, etc.. automatically in order for them to collect rewards.

I was wondering if anyone else has gone further with Twitter than just displaying Twitter statuses on an external website or if you have any cool ideas like the ones I have suggested above. Email me, tweet us or comment back. Cheers

Brian

Proper integration of social media is a design headache, but you’ve chosen some nice examples!