Twitter tweeted out a message today about a special Halloween feature if you Tweet “#trick” or “#treat.” It was difficult to figure out at first, but if you tweet either from your Twitter home page (this is key, you can’t enable the feature when you are on a client), your home page background will go “ghoulish” and the avatars on the Tweets on your page will turn into zombies and ghouls.
The way to trigger it is by tweeting ONLY “#trick” OR “#treat” with nothing else. #Treat is the top trending topic on Twitter so it looks like the masses haven’t figured it out. If you only post #trick or #treat, it doesn’t actually Tweet it out (if you post from Twitter’s site). Happy Halloween!
There are a few variations of backgrounds that Twitter is featuring in the trick. Here are the ones we found.
Thanks @orli!
Trick or tweet!
I’m glad Twitter is focused on the important things, because revenue and site uptime have been crossed off the list.
cool stuff Twitter!
BRRAAAAAINS
Must-follow Web Designer Twitter List http://bit.ly/1I4OFS
e-trick or e-threat? be careful with tweeter links these days…
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Those who are “on” twitter most likely would already know this…
And those who are not… may not care.
Anywho…. have a good weekend.
This is nothing but a simple trick. Boring.
“Twitter tweeted”…
Trick or treated?
Very nice.
So how long until we can enter a Twitter user name that returns a different background for ever user?
That would be fun. Like handling a loaded gun.
took me couple of minutes to findout that.
boo!
This also works in Brizzly. Anyone have a screenshot of that one?
Hah – our head of design started a storm in our base when he started doing something similar with our platform today http://bit.ly/1ogy5z. Twitter move reminds me of Facebook’s talk like a pirate day stuff. Makes things fun and human.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Pretty neat trick! Zombies!
Neat trick and a Nice Find!
Neat trick!
Yeah, an amusing Easter Egg, an homage to the British zombie film 28 Days Later. Here is what comes up for Twitter, as well as Google’s joke for Halloween:
http://praetori...twitter-google/
Nice Easter Egg, an homage to the British zombie flick 28 Days Later. Here is what happens, as well as Google’s Halloween joke:
http://praetori...twitter-google/
Ahh.. Nice tip… Working like a charm..
Just write about it on my blog and obviously I have given credit to TC
How fun is that! You always come with the best ideas. I got the twitwitch:)
here is a instruction of the Twitter Halloween Feature: http://www.zlwo...trick-or-treat/
wowwwwwwwww…thanx…for u r great post….
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Cool easter egg, still waiting for something Konami code related though…
Wow this is great. Good work guys, love the layout