Rob Goodlatte

This morning Dan, Justin, and I rolled out a big new feature for StrawPoll—the ability to run your own Twitter polls.

Simply log into StrawPoll with your Twitter username and password (which we don’t store), post a question, and we’ll take care of the rest. Using the Summize API, we monitor Twitter for replies to your question—transforming your Twitter account into your own polling robot. We pull in your background image and color settings from Twitter and, with some quick color calculations, create a color palette based on your settings. Check out my page and Justin’s for an example.

This is a side project we’ve been working on for the past couple of months while we weren’t in class, writing papers, or taking finals. Try it out here—We hope you like it.