Another day, another Twitter related application launches. This time around it’s TwitTangle, a service that pulls information about your followers from the Twitter API and enables you to put a layer on top by rating and tagging them, and also lets you categorize them in groups. Looks like something Scoble could use.
Like most Twitter apps, TwitTangle requires you to enter your credentials in order to use the service, so that’s up to you. If you do, you’ll find that the look and feel closely resembles that of the Twitter web version, with some added functionality but without the ability to see replies or direct messages. You can filter tweets by period or by tag. Of course, you need to tag all your friends first, so that’s quite a drag if you follow lots of people. Once you’ve taken the time to rate your friends (from ‘Just friends’ to ‘I love them’), you can view a custom timeline that takes your ratings into consideration and shows the updates of your best rated friends first.
Most useful is the Groups feature, which users have long been waiting for Twitter to implement themselves (for the record, they do offer this functionality for the Japanese version), but it’s not nearly enough to justify using TwitTangle daily, particularly because the basic features that make Twitter a good two-way communication channel are not in there. Also, there are no RSS feeds, nor a search function.
Definitely needs some tweaking.
Groups ? Hmm, i wonder when we’ll have groups in Twitter its been ages since they added Groups to Twitter Japan, adding groups to Twitter will make it more and more like IRC Channels
I’ve had the same observation; social media is more of the same, just polished where before it had no GUI. All this was on in CLI back in the BBS days
I’ll check that one out. Finally a valuable objective for a social media tool!
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I suppose we could use TwitTangle to incrementally tag and group people as they come through with updates. But a better solution would have been some kind of Greasemonkey script that sat on top of our Twitter profiles and extended Twitter with tagging and grouping.
That way, we get the best of both worlds…
problem with GreaseGibbon or whatever its called
– it thats its a techy thing, and main stream don’t have the time nor the inclination to undertake a degree in Computer Science to use a social media network
Think the name doesnt work to well, but that aside i think this is conceptually its just the same as tweetdeck – and I cannot fathom why you would want to use both, there is no point.
I like to ability to create groups and manage followers – although if you have a lot of followers you won’t have the patience to group – I know I wont be doing this.
Rating is an interesting one – and will be watching closely what happens here, not sure what benefit this has for the individual user in that i know who is good, bad and ugly in my followers – why would i want to rate them. If they annoy you drop and block, if they dont you nurture and grow the online relationship.
The biggest use is for those of us in IT lockdown at work. I’m using it as a slimmed down version of Tweetdeck since I can’t download at work.
Considering the increasing number of sites asking for our Twitter username/Password, is there any way to be sure it doesnt get mis used, I mean at a way to track or ban twitter based sites having our id/passwords?
Praveen
http://spraveen...ro.blogspot.com
In the Twitter API docs it says they are looking for other methods of authentication like OAuth but for now you need to give the username and password to all access using basic HTTP authentication. It does suck but being a Twitter app developer I never store usernames or passwords they are just used in a session key and I use the Twitter user ID to identify the user.
http://twitterleague.com
But Hak5 have TwitterPhishr.com which is an example of what users could do with the API if they wanted to be evil.
Sounds like we should wait for 2.0.
Of course, you need to tag all your friends first << This means a hard job because its hard to tag xxx+ number of friends!
Thank you Robin for this post. I never thought of using something like that. I am an active twitter. Thx again. Plz give more info like this.
Laksh
http://tinyurl.com/5n9eby
I think the site has great potential but I would need to keep logging in to their site to see my filtered feed. I hardly every use the Twitter website so TwitTangle would need an API before I would use it.
http://twitter....om/ollieparsley
lots of such site and they are growing better and better
Awesome! One more to add to the mess. Wonder how are they are all going to make a penny? With so many of them around I am sure things are going to be difficult. Isn’t Twitter as a service good enough?
Im getting so tired of reading about twitter related applications.. when twitter dont even have a business model or make any money!!
Steven Finch
http://crenk.com
i agree with you steve, it’s been 3 month using twitter and i’m doesn’t feel any money rythm with it even i have an account but now i can’t log to my twitter account either…thx for that tweet
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Logging in my credentials on different, untrusted twit-apps is sooner or later going to prove annoying. Whose gonna create the first open twitter ID? =) One app that does it right is http://twitterlike.com – just type in the username, and voila!
The biggest use is for those of us in IT lockdown at work. I’m using it as a slimmed down version of Tweetdeck since I can’t download at work