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Give Your Twitter Page More Personality with Bubble Tweet

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As far as we can tell, Kevin Sherman (BubbleGuru on Twitter) must have loved Pop-Up Video back in the 90′s, because he has no less than five different video-in-a-bubble services that you can try out. His highest-profile benefit, Bubble Tweet, starts with a simple redirect URL that takes you to someone’s Twitter page. Nearly immediately, a small round bubble appears and starts playing a small video starring the profile’s owner. Simple, to the point, fun, and free!

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To get ongoing with Bubble Tweet, you don’t have to register. Just enter a Twitter account name and record or upload a small video. That’s it! You will get a custom Bubble Tweet URL that will show you your recording overlaid on the individual Twitter account. A count is kept for how many visits each Bubble Tweet URL gets. Plus, you can start up to three Bubble Tweet videos a day.

Although at first blush this may seem like a cute small toy that you may try once and then forget about (and in fact, it seems most of the folks who have recorded a video have indeed done that), we reckon that at the very least it adds a face behind the Twitter account. How many era have you visited someone’s Twitter and wondered, is that a person or an ad agency or a robot behind that login? Now you have 30 seconds to shine for your viewer. With a bit of creativity, you could use this free benefit to answer a weekly question, do a quick movie review, spin in place, or even use it to get people to visit your comedy tour like Dane Cook.

Kevin has taken his bubble-video technology and applied it to a number of different online actions, such as electronic greeting cards (Bubble Joy), enhancing any web site (Bubble Comment), and answering questions (Bubble Guru). In real entrepreneurial form, Kevin isn’t sitting still with his goal to get the web wired up with small-form videos.

He’s even made a StumbleUpon-style random BubbleTweet page everywhere you can just sit back and watch the bubbles one after another. Excellent stuff.

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