Hasta La Gadget!

Threadless, the democratically designed T-shirt company, wants to see your tweets. More specifically, it wants to print them on a T-shirt.

Twitter Tees by Threadless, launched earlier this week, is exactly what it sounds like: a new line of T-shirts based on Twitter. Threadless explains:

Twitter Tees will feature notable Tweets submitted and voted on by Twitter users, with art direction and design of each t-shirt by the
in-house creative team at Threadless. Anyone can submit a Tweet for inclusion. Twitter users will vote on submitted Tweets, with two new Twitter Tees selected and printed each
week. They are likely to be as diverse and varied as the conversations happening all day on Twitter.

But wait, that’s not all! There are prizes to be had!

Twitter users whose Tweets are selected for printing will receive $500
($360 in cash and a $140 Threadless gift certificate). In addition, the
first nominator of a printed Tweet will receive $140 ($100 cash and a
$40 Threadless gift certificate).

To kick things off, Threadless has already selected and designed four, well, let’s call them tweet-shirts, shall we? The following designs are available immediately for $18 each:

I’m huge on Twitter, by Boing Boing co-editor @xenijardin

140 is the new 420, by @mutgoff

The messaging system we didn’t know we needed until we had it, by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

In space, no one can hear you tweet, by @LouisTrapani (Side note: If I were Mike Massimino, the astronaut who recently became the first person to tweet from space, I might take offense at this one.)

Submit one of your own tweets, nominate your friends’ tweets, or purchase one of the four inaugural designs at twitter.threadless.com.