Twitter may be experimenting with a new design, but even its new interface still leaves something to be desired. Tweenky, a new mashup that launched in private beta last week, is looking to offer Twitter users an alternative. The site sports an AJAX-heavy design that borrows heavily from Gmail (which isn’t a bad thing), and integrates a number of features that should appeal to Twitter powerusers. To get one of 200 invites, go here and enter the word “techcrunch” as the invite code.
Users send new tweets from a form at the top of the page that includes integration with link-shortening sites snipurl.com and is.gd. The familiar left sidebar is broken into shortcuts, folders, and a list of hot topics taken from search.twitter.com (formerly Summize). Each folder represents a collapsible lists of keywords and Twitter users that you’ve subscribed to. The site also emulates Twitter’s Track function, which lets you keep tabs on a certain keyword over IM or SMS (Twitter used to have this feature, but disabled it earlier this year).
Tweenky isn’t doing anything revolutionary - all of its features are available elsewhere, either from twitter.com or TwitterSpy, which also provides Twitter’s lost tracking feature. But it brings everything together in a cohesive package that is much more intutive than most other attempts we’ve seen. For more information, check out Orli Yakuel’s introduction to the site.
Isn’t that a derogatory word for “white washed” asians? Yellow on the outside, white one the inside?
No, that’s banana.
Or you could be a pencil. Yellow on the outside. Black on the inside.
Mwahahahahah.
Thanks for not covering yet another virtual world company. Anything is an interesting read from there.
“But it brings everything together in a cohensive package that is much more intutive than most other attempts we’ve seen.”
Take a look at that sentence…
When will the madness end! There are too many applications available for twitter if you ask me.
It was a real treat being notified of this post by tracking “tweenky” in Tweenky. =)
“But it brings everything together in a cohensive package that is much more intutive than most other attempts we’ve seen.”
I’m glad Jason picked up on that. Pretty much everything Tweenky is today in just a combination of Summize, Twitter, GMail, Google Reader, etc… But I just wanted something to have it all in one place, and in the cloud, not in a desktop app. I do have some plans for some yet-to-be-seen-elsewhere features. More on that some other time.
- Derek Gathright
Tweenky.com
P.S. Special thanks to Orli who has been Tweenky’s biggest fan so far. Everyone should go subscribe to her blog, now!
Did I miss the boat already? The invite code comes back as invalid. Actually, maybe it’s better this way.
same problem here… invide code seems to be invalid already.
They layout seems easy to work with.
http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Gmail’s good looks! Hahaha! Good one. I must thank Aditi for giving me a link to this wonderful joke site!
I don’t find the invites code working.
tim, stefan, beauty,
Sorry, invites we all gobbled up in about 15 minutes. Follow @Tweenky and I’ll send out some invites when the site is ready for more users.
“Sorry, registration has closed for the time being.”
Gmail’s good looks? I don’t know what y’all are smoking there but I highly suggest you buck up and develop a tolerance as it’s impacting your tastes in design.
Looks like a freaking easter egg. I got in just a few mins ago, maybe more invites were sent out…
GMail’s good look? are you kidding?
I got in with the invite code a few minutes ago, so it apparently still works! It’s definitely a better web interface than Twitter’s, but I think I’ll stick to Twitterrific. But, if I’m on another computer, this seems like a superior way to Twitter. The auto-refresh option is quite nice.
I think they’re using GWT from google.
http://twithire.com
GMail’s good look? Maybe you meant clutter-free simple interface…
Don’t get me wrong. I love GMail for its features… but calling its interface “Good looking” might be a stretch
Hey Jason are you having a laugh?
Gmail looks horrible.
In fact Hotmail is much better, both in terms of use and design.
All this Google “anti-design” is just sad, not clever.
Anyone can produce something ugly and clunky. Just look at George Bush !
nice work!
The invitation code is not working anymore…
I will have to agree with Patrick on this one. There are a lot of things good about GMail (I use it all the time), but its aesthetics is not one of them. Unless, of course, the crayola cran look is the next big thing.
This is so cool. Bottom line is I don’t want clutter on the interface. I am a tech nerd so I want to get my info up front, be able to move around and query whatever the heck I want, and have it delivered to my inbox. If you ask me, THAT’s the coolest feature. If you want to know what people are saying about, say, Techcrunch or Google or Arthur Bryant’s, just create that query in your folder and have it sent to you every time someone mentions it. Brilliant!
Gmail’s design is simple yet, but fantastic - no.
How about they fix their service first. The damn thing breaks every day.
GMail’s good looks?!
LOLlercoaster.
Wow Mike, that URL made me look twice..
I was just thinking last week that something like this was needed on twitter. It’s good to see that someone is working on it… too bad I saw it too late to get an invite.
Need an invite…
mmm Is there an article including an app’s compilation?. I’m dizzy.
All about invitation code and Gmail looking? …