In a followup to my post about building SEO through Digg and my project proposal that would create a network for people to digg and Twitter, I have a new idea.
Wrapping my head around the technical aspects of this is difficult because I don't yet have a strong grasp of php, but the idea is to create an interface that someone could tweet from 100 different, real, Twitter accounts - each with just the press of a button. Basically, if you wanted to create some buzz, you could go there and fire off all these tweets and give the impression that there are a lot of people talking about your site.
The hardest step would probably be to write a whole bunch of tweets so they weren't all exactly the same. This would help avoid the spammy look. Imagine if someone had a typo or mis-spelling. Nobody would believe that 100 people had the same typo, right?
Ultimately, if I can get the php to work and can swing the interface into something usable, I might try to grow it well beyond 100 accounts. I think some real fun would be to try to use this to get into the trending topics if that is possible. Could 150-300 tweets do that? I'm not sure, but it sure would be fun to try.
On a side note, if you know php and would like to be involved in this project, drop me a line. I could use a little help and the result might be something really useful.

James Lambert is a Vermont newspaper editor, more specifically the design editor at the Rutland Herald. He is also an MSIT student at Marlboro College and enjoys developing Web sites and SEO. He blogs here from time to time about these topics.