In between global economic meltdown, a royal wedding, the Arab spring and Kim Kardashian’s marriage there’s been plenty happening in 2011. So has it left you breathless, tired out and not in a Christmas mood? Or are you positively bursting at the seams for some Yuletide fun? Checking across our office it’s clear that people are falling into two distinct camps, one that is positively cheery and the other completely humbug.

This got us thinking about how the year had left people feeling about Christmas. As always these days, Twitter is a great place to look for immediate opinions on subjects. And with that we’ve decided to do away with a Christmas card - instead, this season we’re using Twitter to help people spread Christmas joy or humbug, dependent on their mood.

We’ve created a microsite, which acts as a pinboard for people’s tweets that are hashtagged #traxmas or #trahumbug. The tweets are then converted into hashtag snowflakes and dependent on how cheerful or miserable the messages are the scene changes. At the last check it was 74% cheery so things are looking quite rosy for Christmas at the moment.

One thing is for certain, regardless of the final result it’s generated a lot of interest and delivers an engaging way of presenting and recording the mood on Twitter. If you’d like to add your opinion to the scene visit http://traxmas.realadventure.co.uk today and add your Tweet!