Tweephone is an analog Twitter client created using an old rotary dial telephone. It allows users to post tweets by dialing letters and numbers in the same way as making phone calls. The Bureau created Tweephone in under 48 hours as a creative way to celebrate its one year anniversary and promote the company's high production capabilities. Posted tweets using Tweephone reached over 30 million people and 10 million contacts, proving its viral success.
2. Background
Once upon a time having a very tight schedule the Bureau
employees discovered that the company becomes one year
old in less than 48 hours, and there is no "birthday cake"
3. Task
To design and 'bake' a cake within 48 hours
onсe again proving high creative and production
levels of the Bureau to its customers and partners
6. Tweephone —is the first analogue
twitter client, which is made in
in the frame of a rotary dial
telephone set and is running
on a platform Arduino
Typesetting is based on the same principle as in the cell phone keypad.
For instance, to get «a» you have to dial «2» once,
and to get «f» you dial «3» three times. All tweets posted on the
Tweephone Twitter account were dialed from this very device