Just because it is shared on Twitter doesn’t make it good. Nevertheless, ffwd, the video-surfing recommendation site that borrows from StumbleVideo, has launched Twitmatic, a video site that plays only videos being shared on Twitter. (The name TwitterTV was already taken).
The concept is very simple. You are presented with videos in an embedded player which you can watch, or skip to the next one. If you like a video, there is a “Tweet this video” button, which acts as an extra vote for the video since presumably ffwd is counting how many times a particular video is Tweeted to come up with its recommendations. The videos I saw on the site were pretty random, everything from the little boy David who just came back from dental surgery and a guy throwing his Wii controller through his TV screen to one where some guys are setting up a race track in their office. Interspersed in there were also really bad marketing videos for a Rodial Tummy Tuck machine (I’ll spare you the link), get-rich-quick schemes, and dry stock market analysis.
People share all sorts of junk on Twitter. I’m not sure it works as an effective filter for video. But it does help kill some time. Ffwd also has set up a special SXSW version of Twitmatic showcasing videos from the conference in Austin which begins today.
(See also, our previous coverage on ffwd).
Fun time killer.
Just a bunch of Diggers.. posting ,like Mad dogs what they have seen on Dig..
Sheeer Fuckin Genius..
Shel was Right!!!!
a good way to get tech crunch to write about your company is to start a company and tie it to twitter.
spot on!
Why didn’t I think of it! :p
Twitter is definitely not a great source for Videos. I would say MySpace is .. and I guess Cruxle ( http://www.cruxle.com ) already did this and I love the videos and other media from Cruxle. Particularly, I like the recommendations across media, when I watch a video, I’ll be recommended with some music I may like – excellent way to push contents.
But for twitter, it’s a great source for news articles or other interesting pages. And I guess BoilingPage ( http://www.boilingpage.com ) captured this nicely
Pretty neat, and executed well.
I completely agree.
I think I’m getting tired of all the twitter news.
yea twitter is over doing their shit i mean its getting ridiculous now and all erick from TC writes about is twitter I wonder how much he has invested in them to be only writing articles about twitter
This is an amazing app. We had some other video related apps listed on our site as well!
Pretty cool Twitter feature. However, I don’t want to have to waste my time with videos that aren’t worth viewing. Maybe in a later version you’ll be able to search by keyword or something..
@MatthewLoop
We totally understand your concerns. We’re working on a bunch of new features including view by top trends, nifty queries, and eventually full search. But we’d love to hear back from you about what features you’d really love to see. You can contact us @twitmatic on twitter.
I’m not an anti-tweeter, but I wonder if why Tweeter declined on Facebook. Here in the Philippines, net users are not into Tweeting, they prefer Facebook-ing rather that doing some Tweets.. Just an opinion.
nice idea.
I guess thing like:
http://my-iphon...zz.blogspot.com
or
http://sxsw-news.blogspot.com
give the users a feel what the crowds of twitter feel about it…
I like random. New stuff is always the best stuff, for me anyways…
If you are interested in the most twittered videos, check out this:
http://www.truv...wittered-videos
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Hmmmmm I cam from google to this site. I hve got lots of info here. and also going to book mark it. well nice post waiting for more updates.
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