At a Montreal high-tech meetup yesterday, I had a short chat with Felipe Coimbra, who organized the event and did a presentation about his start-up, YowTrip, which helps people find travel companions.
Earlier this year, Felipe backed off on YowTrip to focus on creating Twitter applications – a logical move given Twitter’s growth, and the fierce competition within the online travel market.
Over the past six months, Felipe has developed a growing portfolio of Twitter applications – some of more successful than others. He’s taking a 37 Signals-like approach by creating a bunch of applications, and then focusing on the ones that get the most traction.
The star of his Twitter portfolio is TwtPoll, which lets you quickly and easily create polls on Twitter. The basic service is free, although Felipe plans on rolling out more premium services to generate revenue.
In many respects, TwtPolls is a lot like PollDaddy, which made it a snap for bloggers and people running Web sites to create online polls and surveys. While PollDaddy’s free services attracted a lot of users, the company also generated some significant revenue from premium services.
As Twitter attracts more users and become an increasingly valuable way to do research and generate reviews and feedback, polls and surveys are likely become more popular.
This could TwtPoll in the right place at the right time. And if TwtPoll doesn’t work out, Coimbra has the skills and enthusiasm to come up with a bunch of other Twitter applications.
This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
TwtPoll: PollDaddy for Twitter?
Earlier this year, Felipe backed off on YowTrip to focus on creating Twitter applications – a logical move given Twitter’s growth, and the fierce competition within the online travel market.
Over the past six months, Felipe has developed a growing portfolio of Twitter applications – some of more successful than others. He’s taking a 37 Signals-like approach by creating a bunch of applications, and then focusing on the ones that get the most traction.
The star of his Twitter portfolio is TwtPoll, which lets you quickly and easily create polls on Twitter. The basic service is free, although Felipe plans on rolling out more premium services to generate revenue.
In many respects, TwtPolls is a lot like PollDaddy, which made it a snap for bloggers and people running Web sites to create online polls and surveys. While PollDaddy’s free services attracted a lot of users, the company also generated some significant revenue from premium services.
In the end, PollDaddy was purchased by Automattic, which operates Wordpress.
As Twitter attracts more users and become an increasingly valuable way to do research and generate reviews and feedback, polls and surveys are likely become more popular.
This could TwtPoll in the right place at the right time. And if TwtPoll doesn’t work out, Coimbra has the skills and enthusiasm to come up with a bunch of other Twitter applications.