Keynote Tweet automatically sends Twitter updates during presentations

John Brownlee ()

Keynote Tweet automatically sends Twitter updates during presentations

Next week, crazed-eyed bloggers with their fingers a-blur will collectively tweet each and every minute of Steve Jobs’ keynote, regurgitating in small micro-blogging belches each and every detail of the unveiled Apple Tablet.

But imagine if Jobs himself could easily send out automated Twitter updates as he walked us through the Tablet’s specs, features, availability and price. Keynote Tweet is an open source Applescript that does just that, automatically tweeting the user-customizable summary of a slide as it is displayed.

It’s a fantastic idea. In fact, Apple should incorporate this sort of functionality into Keynote as standard: there’s more companies than just Apple who could raise awareness of their new products and services by automatically micro-blogging about them as they are unveiled.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • http://www.designtreefrog.com Sevag

    I could just see the entire keynote being sent out to the world through nice little tweets to peoples desks for the duration of the keynote… days before the official announcement during a ‘dry run’. Steve’s globe of secrecy would shatter like a Christmas ornament hitting the ground from a top branch. Leaving dangerously sharp shards of glass everywhere. Someone could, would, will die. Kinda like when an iPhone went missing.

  • chuck

    I still don’t know why they can’t stream the video. This is 2010, isn’t it?

  • http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ Vuk

    What I would like to play with is a split screen (or some ticker inside my Keyote slides) where I get the feed of what my listeners are saying.
    In this way I would’t be just tweeting my slide titles but risking to discover hostility to my arguments in realtime.
    I thing this beats dodging questions after the talk or missing the whole paralel tweet talk among the crowd discussing my thing.
    It would be riskier, more honnest, rather psycho but might work.