TweetCamp is really a free-to-attend, participant-brought unconference working in london, targeted at Twitter veterans and noobs alike.

It aims for connecting digital professionals to accelerate conversations around social networking channels, for example Twitter, cement new associations and usually inspire fresh thinking, new collaborations, and innovation.

The very first TweetCamp happened in September 2009, and that we re now fast-approaching the 2011 event. October eighth may be the day, also it s happening in the Learning Village in East London.

Tickets is going to be launched on the first come first offered basis in 4-5 batches, between your eighth and 30th of September. But social networking monitoring company Brandwatch has released a fascinating initiative to assist promote the big event and possibly even get its #tweetcamp hashtag trending on Twitter.

It's created an interactive data visualization tool as an online campground, where campers compete to upgrade their tents and claim the warden s hut inside a bid to win tickets towards the event, in addition to awards and also the honor to be the Tweetcamp warden.

Initial admission to the campground is acquired with the Tweetcamp fire. To go in the fire area, you can simply tweet the hashtag #tweetcamp, so when you hover your mouse within the fire, you ll see all recent tweets:

Each Tent, Tipi or Yurt (you will find 50 pitches as a whole) signifies one Twitter user and also the number shown on the tent shows how frequently they ve used the #tweetcamp hashtag. As campground residents tweet much more about the big event, they start to upgrade their pitches and surroundings.


The progression is made of the fire to some Tent, then onto a Tipi after which a Yurt. The best goal may be the Tweetcamp Warden s hut. However, they have to continue tweeting to retain their position.

There's additionally a nice soundscape that plays without anyone's knowledge and, at 6pm, evening mode takes over and also the sounds and pictures switch to suit the time.

Although this really is designed like a marketing tool, it will assistance to demonstrate a few of the pretty awesome Twitter API use-cases. Take a look on your own here: http://labs.brandwatch.com/tweetcamp/.