Hard Drivin’ is a kinetic installation created by Ivan Twohig, Benjamin Gaulon and Brian Solon. The title of the piece references Hard Drivin’ a video game released in 1989. The game featured the first 3D polygon driving environment.
The installation involves radio controlled (R/C) cars that physically react to short messages (’tweets’) sent through the popular social networking site Twitter. The cars are placed on a 3d-like structure inspired by polygonal modeling. Anyone can participate by telling the cars to begin following another user, by sending a simple command inside a tweet.

http://harddrivin.com

The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from the Twitter API. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive call of a mechanical cuckoo popping out of the clock.
The clock could monitor any twitter stream or search, so it could for example inform the user about new tweets in his personal timeline. In exhibition context however it is configured to react on self-referenced tweets. If “TwitweeClock” is mentioned in any tweet, the tweet is displayed on the built in screen and the cuckoo mechanism is triggered.
Thereby the observer has the possibility to interact with the clock by sending a tweet with the word TwitweeClock, the hashtag #TwitweeClock, or the username @TwitweeClock.

http://www.haroonbaig.com/projects/TwitweeClock/

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UTV, by Rob Duarte, is the transposition of our Internet identities from Twitter feeds to an over-the-air TV broadcast.
UTV is part of an exhibition entitled “Ill Communication”, which examines the role of technology in our understandings of community and communication. The format of the exhibition is such that each of the participating artists presents a work that spans two halves of the gallery space – essentially, an “interface” and an “output”.

http://www.robduarte.com/utv.html

The Bird Watcher is the latest work by software artist André Goncalves:
“Several accounts where created on Twitter, one for each of the birds listed below. A Java application, developed in processing, is used to update the twitter status for each of the birds according to each species particular behaviour (ex. owls can only be heard at night, roosters sing at sunrise…). The application also gets xml weather reports from the Yahoo Weather Report which also diferently affects the species behaviour.This application is running 24/7 from a dedicated computer installed at my studio. A Master account called The_BirdWatcher follows all birds tweets.”

http://www.andregoncalves.info/installations/thebirdwatcher/

Tweeting Colors, by Brian Piana, is webpage comprised of vertical color bars created by special tweets from Twitter users. Anyone can view the piece, but a Twitter user in the public timeline can add bars by following the simple directions linked to from the bottom of the page. The newest bars appear from the left. The page auto-refreshes a few times a minute, so sit back and enjoy the Color Feed.

http://www.tweetingcolors.com

Where is your art? is a kinetic sound installation by András Juhász Márton, Melinda Matúz, Gergely Kovács and Barbara Sterk. Once a visitor enters the room hacked toy robots start to chat about art, reading the most recent lines of twitter community. Each tweet that contains the word “art” will be translated with a text to speech software. So the toy robots can talk in tweets about art.

http://pressmeprocess.blogspot.com/
http://kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/745

GoodMorning!, by Jer Thorp, is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24 hour period, rendering a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. The tweets are colour-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black blocks are ‘out of time’ tweets which said good morning (or a non-english equivalent) at a strange time in the day.

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/goodmorning

In Overhere, a work by Lauren McCarthy, Twitter feeds of two characters are converted into whispered automated voices and play through speakers embedded in objects in the lobby. The feeds are experienced separately, intimately, requiring participants to get close, to move, to listen, to work together to overhear the dialogue.
With the collective action of two or more participants, a full conversation is reformed in physical space based on the virtual communication of two fictional characters.
At overheredarkhorse.com participants twitter the things they overhear in public bathrooms. They are added to an online map of NYC, creating a visualization of the interactions, ideas, and exchanges occurring in public bathrooms.

http://www.lauren-mccarthy.com/current/overhere.html
http://overheredarkhorse.com/
http://acanarytorsi.org/

Pa++ern is a project by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi. Originally created for the exhibition at B-Gallery (Tokyo), the work is a combination of an installation and an original esoteric programming language for embroidery. In fact, it connects an embroidery machine with Twitter, using a special language to encode designs in the 140 character limit.

http://www.rzm-dev.com/pattern

Murmur Study, by Christopher Baker, is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally-indexed by corporations. While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression should give us pause.
This installation consists of 30 thermal printers that continuously monitor Twitter for new messages containing variations on common emotional utterances. Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless waterfall of text accumulating in tangled piles below.

http://christopherbaker.net/projects/murmur-study/

Spreadtweet is a downloadable software that gives your Twitter page a spreadsheet look. Written by Elliott Kember, this program is designed for the people who works for big companies and are not allowed to use Twitter. Spreadtweet makes your social network looks just like Excel…

http://www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet.html