melanie roy from sister station "kyw news radio" shows you how the twitter tree works. >> a team everys and social media specialists at oxford communications have created twitter controlled christmas tree and holiday display. >> now, overall idea about gamefication. so imagine one to be red, one wants the tree green. so war back and forth with social media to determine what color the tree will be. >> all operated through tweets and hash tags. >> eight chapels, eight plugs, which houses microcomputer watch we have is that connected to the internet, and it is also connected to twitter. >> the tree even has it own twitter account. >> what we want to do create fun account that people would want to interact with, have conversations back and forth with as if it was a friend of theirs. >> so if people write a hashtag, to twitter, in this case use the example comfort, so hashtag comfort, the tree collect the information, and then influence the switch, and turns the lights to red. >> it is on display at oxford communications office, throughout the holiday season. >> you can tweet hashtag brilli

melanie roy from our sister station "kyw news radio" 1006 shows you how the twitter tree works. >> a-active designers and social media specialists at oxford communications have created a twitter controlled christmas tree and holiday display. >> now, overall idea was about gamefication. susi wants the tree to be green, billy want the tree to be red, they almost have a little war back and forth using social media to determine, you know, what color the tree would be. >> it is all operated through tweets and hash tags. >> so there are eight channels, eight plugs on this box, which houses a microcomputer. what we have is that is connected to the internet, and it is also connect today twitter. >> the access tree even has it own twitter account. >> we wanted to create fun account that people would want to interact with and have conversations back and forth with as if it was a friend of theirs. >> so, if people write a hashtag, to twitter, in this case we'll use the example comfort, so hashtag comfort the true collects that information and then flips the switch and turns lights to red. >> th

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