But wait!” you say. “There are dozens of those! Twtpoll, Polldaddy, Polls.tw, Pollpigeon…” True, but they poll off-site. The user tweets a link to the poll site where the poll is conducted and results presented.
Twitpolls is a new polling application that simplifies the process by staying on-site. Users ask a question in the form of a regular tweet. To respond, followers simply tweet a reply using a hashtag, e.g. #2hours, #3hours, #4hours or #whateverittakes; or #yes, #no, #maybe. Twitpolls tracks those hashtags from your followers, adds them up and sends the results to participants in real-time within Twitter.
Is staying on-site such a big deal?
Well, this is what Tom Jessiman, CEO of Wayin (the company behind Twitpolls) says…
The beauty of this service is its simplicity and alignment with current Twitter behaviour. Most polling services require a user to click a link from Twitter which links to a new website. If you are on a mobile device, this can be a deal killer. By keeping the questions inside Twitter, users stay engaged without the headaches of navigating to multiple websites and applications.
TwitPolls is free, but of course, there are fancy commercial options available such as customised charts and graphs.
So…. think you might use it? #yes #no #maybe?
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Love this idea…a polling service has not really happened ON Twitter, with the rise of Twitter there is no telling how big this gets. This is a game changer for brands/teams etc.
This is awesome i’ll definitely use it!
Great site, been using it frequently
Favorite part is that I can reply like a normal tweet instead of having to go vote on some other site.
Great article, the idea of Twitpolls is brilliant! Love the video too.
Great and clever implementation. Makes Twitter way more fun.
I love hos simple it is to get quick opinions from my followers and love the consolidated rollup that lets me see the results as they come in real time in a very easy to understand format
Thanks for bringing this to my attention – I just tried it out and found it remarkably simple. It also occurs to me that since every person who votes on your questions does so by replying @soandso, this is a really easy way to boost your Klout score. The other polling mechanism can’t do this since they send you off twitter…
This is great! Can’t wait to use it for my personal Twitter. Maybe I can convince our PR dept to use it for our official one too.
Fabulous addition to twitter. I might start polling my followers if it’s going to be this easy now.