Belgium-based Twistory launched into private beta today at MobileWebCamp.
It’s a very simple tool, built by Tijs Vrolix to show off his coding and design skills: Subscribe to messages from any Twitter user in any popular desktop or online calendaring application (iCal, Google Calendar, etc.). Those messages are then automatically added to the calendar, at the appropriate day and time.
Useful? I don’t know. It’s certainly useful to closely monitor/stalk people (or yourself). If you want to add my daily words of wisdom to your calendar, my page is here (which also includes a graph of total twitter usage by day.
Thanks to Robin Wauters for the tip.
Thumbs up, but would also rather be able to upload individual ones myself as and when.
I can see where this would be useful for some people, but I don’t think it’s got what it takes to be a general everyday tool for the majority of Twitter users (myself included). Especially given the volume of messages that even small followings can accumulate in a single day.
What would be useful though is if the service allowed individual messages to be synced to the calendar, rather than having the calendar flooded by a deluge of Twitter updates.
Thumbs up - would be useful if you used your account strictly for business purposes, CRM etc. getting a timeline of when contact was made with customers etc. would be pretty handy I think.
Oh my god, that’s madness!
he went to my school i think
Or simply somtething like an exercise or diet log. I can see uses.
Twitter Everywhere
@Project - yeah, if you could say, import only tweets that contain a hashtag you specify, say like #exercise you could get some handy little displays.
Kick-ass tool
@ Martin yeah. And you would have a nice calendar view of the number of meals you are eating a day as well as the times you ate them. Could be useful
This would be a perfect mashup to save our user’s daily word lists for future reference.
I’ve added Twistory to our survey ‘what new feature do you need next’.
(the learnit widget is a tool to help language learners study 10 new words every day, by the way.)
Cool mashup, but a solution looking for a problem. I don’t want Tweets in iCal or Goog Cal and I cant see millions (or even tens of thousands) wanting it either.
Over application of technology!
It’s useful for the average Twitter-user which follows about 10 people (They said that in an interview with Scoble on FastCompany.TV), but definitely not for the TechCrunch-editors and Twitter power-users.
It could find its usefulness.
Individual messages would become far too overwhelming for many users. What would make this useful for many more people is to bundle them hourly. Ever for people that get hundreds of messages per day, you’d still only have at most 24 entries in a day, with each one having dozens or hundreds of entries.
Seriously Mike, enough with the Twitter posts. Twitter is great if you spend 24/7 onlne and is a fun social networking tool.
But the general population have never heard of twitter, and care even less about every app that integrates into its API.
You love Twitter, we get it.
Most of us just think its OK, and the apps that tag on, slightly less OK.
I’m not so sure I’d want to start a company based on Twitter. Twitter itself is financially unstable.
will be good for business collaboration
I am rolling out a new product that is not online yet. Do anyone know how I can raise fund? Where to get started?
If this is now the type of app that makes techcrunch, no one should be surprised by a vc slow down.
@Sebastian: I wouldn’t define Twistory as an alternative to the typical Twitter clients (think Twitterific, …), rather as a way to browse your own (and perhaps a small number of friends) Twitter archive. It’s about the birdseye view, not about presence.
Excellent idea, 2 thumbs up
Nat
http://www.workersinc.com
I’ve been twittering myself all morning and I’m starting to get a rash.
It would be nice to have a possibility to view chats archive of g.talk this way on g.calendar
Nice Shot!
Cool Mashup …
thx Toni
Twitter users…I’m just curious how much Twitter adds to your productivity/day. Between posting updates about your activities to following user responses and replying to them, let alone tracking other Twitter users…just what percentage of your time is productive.
Now of course none of thos takes into account email, phone calls, bio breaks, IMs, colleague face time, etc…
Belgium is spelt with IU, not UI. Might want to change that, in the crunch base site.
I would love to see Twitter combined with Google trends. That would be some nice data to look at.
For those who like a “self-hosted-tweaked” alternative:
Tom Henderson wrote a script, which converts a RSS feed into iCal format.
http://www.blogtender.com/2007.....d-in-ical/
What I did:
- setup a sub-domain, to make the script public available.
- put MagpieRSS and your script online.
- added a Calender in Google Calender, via URL. The URL points to your script, with the RSS feed as a parameter.
- Looked at GCal: yes! I makes a copy of my lifestream.
I guess it works with Twitter-feeds also. I use it to import my lifestream into iCal, for archiving and search.
Good luck!
seems to be an interesting analytics tool at least
You should know Robin Wauters is being called “a lying cheating shit” who is about to face a court case for corporate fraud because he shared stolen private documents with techcrunch. The source who told me said the case starts in June and Robin is not aware yet.
I agree with Duncan whole heartedly. What’s the point? Though I know I’m an exception I get thousands of tweets a day (I think)… I don’t even know how that would be displayed in iCal in any kind of sensical way *if* I even wanted it
I could see a use for this and it’s something I’ve been doing for a while. Twitter is a nice platform for doing a mini-diary of sorts. You can post to it from a variety of interfaces. And since Google Cal lets you turn feed views on and off, you don’t need to keep it on all the time. But when you want to review, just turn off the other calendars and view the Twitter feed only.
@ Dale Andrews: the only one calling Robin Wauters a “a lying cheating shit” is… you. And now we’re all wondering why.
@ Ranting Dale Andrews: I have worked with Robin Wauters for many years and hope to do so for many more. Lying and cheating can only be associated with Robin, when it comes to exposing ‘lying cheating chits’. Grow up , become a man, stop using anonymous sources and yet to be started court cases.
@Dale Andrews: I never lie or cheat, which sometimes causes problems with certain people in certain situations, but in the end being ethical works for me in the long term. Anyone who knows me or has ever worked with me can confirm that.
I don’t know who you are and where your comment is coming from, but I know your comment is not based on any facts. Personally, I think you’re a bit delusional. The source who told me said you’re a nutcase and Dale isn’t even aware of it yet.
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter — There must be some use for this program like all the other Twitter mashups =oP. What do you guys think?