Twitter as a polling mechanism

Jim Muttram


This is a nice idea from The Unofficial Apple Weblog - using Twitter simply to poll two different options (I guess you could use more, though obviously the question has to be pretty tightly written!)
UPDATE: If you need an industrial strength way of polling, try Twtpoll

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