Business Savvy Software

Our first micro-site is up and of all things – it sells tee-shirts!

Check it out: http://www.tweet4yourtee.com

Over a Roti Chenai a couple of months back, we were talking about having a play with the Twitter API and how we could have some fun.  The idea hatched that it would be cool to have a tee-shirt with our Twitter name on it – so Tom and Warren went to work designing a site, designing some tees and organising the production and distribution side of things and last week we built the site.

The site still needs a bit (well – a lot) of tweaking, but we’ve managed to make use of the Twitter API in a couple of ways.  The homepage shows the twitter name of the last person to mention @tweet4yourtee, the On Twitter page shows the most recent conversations with @tweet4yourtee and the order page will automatically apply a discount to your order if you’ve mentioned @tweet4yourtee in a tweet.

Thanks to the reach of Twitter, the first sale happened within an hour of the site going live and while I wouldn’t say its spreading virally, its fun seeing hundreds of people hit the site after seeing it tweeted.  The tee-shirts are quite nice too – I’m wearing mine now and there will be a few on display at WebStock this week.

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