Create Polls on the Fly With TwittaPolls

Whether you’re a company taking advantage of the social internet to get your customer’s opinions or you’re just curious about your fellow users’ opinions on a specific topic, polls really can get people talking. There are many poll apps out there but some of these take ages to create an account and get the poll set up, sometimes raising doubts about whether it’s even worth it.

This is where TwittaPolls comes in. It allows you to easily and quickly create polls that can be shared with friends via Twitter and Facebook. Find out more after the fold.

Overview

TwittaPolls is a web app that allows you to create polls for distribution through Twitter and Facebook quickly and gather information about their geographical location for referencing the results. It comes complete with the ability to share polls through two of the most popular social networks and also provides a JavaScript widget that can be placed into websites to maximize the potential reach.

Pricing

TwittaPolls is free and has the option of paying to upgrade the quota of polls, voters and other options. Though it is not clear on the website how much this upgrade costs and there is no option present, it is safe to assume that when paying for the upgrade, all limits on polls would be lifted.

Creating a Poll

You can get started with TwittaPolls in seconds – all you have to do is sign into TwittaPolls with either Twitter or Facebook. Once you’ve done this, you can create your first poll. After login, you’ll be immediately taken to the poll creation page from which you can quickly and easily create your first poll.

Simply enter the question you’d like to ask along with a list of selectable answers you’d like to offer to those completing the poll and you are done. TwittaPolls also supports the association of hashtags with each poll to allow you to easily monitor the buzz relating to your brand or service through Twitter’s trending topics feature. You’ll be able to preview the final poll before it’s created, allowing for amendments to be made before launching it.

You will then be directed to the public version of the poll that other users can vote on. From here, you will also be able to share the poll either through your Twitter or Facebook accounts and you are pretty much finished. It really is that quick to setup a poll using TwittaPolls.

Poll Voting

When users vote on a poll, they will be presented with a current overview of the poll’s results showing how many people have voted for each option as well as a map with all votes on. Each person voting is represented on the map by a color that corresponds to that of the answer they have chosen and this can be useful if you’re looking to find out where the most popular voters are for each answer, which in turn can be useful if you’re actually looking for a more detailed country-by-country vote on a specific topic. Overall, as you’d expect, it’s pretty simple to vote on the polls created on TwittaPolls and you get a fairly basic but nonetheless useful view of the voters.

Additional Interaction

As well as offering a view of the voters based on their current location, it’s also possible to interact with other users that have voted on the poll. Each poll comes with a comment system whereby voters can add their additional thoughts on the poll and the results of it, thus allowing both engagement with the voters and it can also allow for more detailed answers that provide a significantly better view of the voter’s thoughts.

When polls are created, they allow for hashtags to be associated with them and as such, these can be useful in gathering the thoughts of your voters outside of the poll. This can also be a useful way of associating your poll with other current issues, and with the trending of Twitter, can also provide a wider availability of voters if the poll is associated with a topic that people are talking about.

Sharing

One of TwittaPolls’ greatest advantages is the ability to easily share each poll created with other users of social networks. Due to the limit on length in the question of the poll, the details of the poll can fit in a standard tweet which allows for easy distribution of the link through Twitter. As well as Twitter, polls can also be shared through Facebook which is particularly more useful to users who want to also get their friends’ vote on a poll they have voted on.

As well as these sharing options, TwittaPolls polls can also be embedded within websites using a small snippet of JavaScript. Whilst there is no option to customize these, it’s still a good replacement to other poll apps due to its sheer social appeal.

Final Thoughts

Overall, TwittaPolls is a great solution to solving your polling needs and overall providing a simple and fast way to create polls on the fly. Whilst the set of features is pretty basic, it does exactly what you’d expect an app of this type to do and does so well.

With a really insightful way of displaying the information, geographical relevance can also be analyzed simply by viewing the poll’s results. Whilst the app does have some really good qualities, I found the interface to be somewhat inconsistent and a little cluttered at times. With the addition of some more useful features, the app would be a really good way of gathering information and taking advantage of social networks to the full extent.