Micro-blogging is getting micro-payments. Tinker, the micro-blogging topic tracker from Glam Media which we covered in depth last night, is now live. The service tracks specific topics on both Twitter and Facebook, and allows these “event” streams to be republished as standalone widgets on blogs and other sites across the Web. I’ve embedded an example below showing the subsequent Tweets about our original article.
With the launch, Glam Media is also creating a professional micro-blogging network for journalists and bloggers who want to sign up to cover specific events or topics via Twitter or Facebook. It will be called the Tinker Micro-Bloggers Network. This will be a vetted subset of Tinker users who are advertiser-friendly. Glam is working on a micro-payments system to share revenues with approved micro-bloggers from ads in their associated widgets and Tinker streams.
All existing Glam Media publishers are automatically part of the Tinker Micro-Blogging Network. Glam also hopes to attract professional bloggers and journalists, who are pre-qualified (including any bloggers who are part of other blog advertising networks such as Federated Media, BlogHer, and TotalBeauty). Others can apply to be part of the network as well.
In order to make advertisers more comfortable with the concept of associating their brands with these micro-conversations, Tinker will offer a “safe” mode so that ads never appear near obscenities or specified keywords. Event moderators can also use the filters to block specific keywords or people from appearing in their curated stream.
looks promising, i just signed up.
Wow..That’s cool.. I will register an account on it now.
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Tinker is not using Twitter’s implementation of Oauth for authenticating users? Am I missing something?
great announce. I’ll be there in a minute
me too, looks interesting.
Whoa – this is seriously very very cool. New generation of news… Why has no one else done this yet?
Of course.. I don’t want to miss this thing also.. checking the site now.
Argh! They ask for your Twitter username and password. OAuth is there and it works. I wish sites like these would get on the ball and use it.
Tinker is awesome! I will join this one, very much interesting. This is a good way to socialize and interact online.
What does Glam do? I think they are the most distracted company I’ve ever seen.
they monetize content – this seems like a pretty smart extension
Trends chart by breaking events news is mesmerizing – push play http://www.tink...e&category=
yeah, most ad networks don’t build destination sites. they also seem to lose a lot of senior talent so my guess is that things aren’t going well over there.
Do you work for iVillage or Federated or something or posting for them or was one of the senior talent that they fired or let go recently? Word from the network is things are going very well. They’ve always been a publisher network with services for us and keep innovating, launching new services and paying us well. go away.
This looks seriously useless. Click on the icons on the front page and just look at the stream of ‘chatter’. That’s a great word because that’s what it is: mostly noise. The signal to noise ratio is practically non-existent. What a waste of time. Of course, because it is part of the mindless Twitter bandwagon, people will sign up.
Why don’t you post your account on Tinker here so we can see how you are trying to use it? Made any events for people? Else go away.
agree with Jojo. Site looks useless.
Hey check this out: http://www.tink...redoubt_volcano posted by @rschott on Tinker. Is a great way to break local news. Click on the icon and you see a stream of news that is not on CNN. Seriously cool.
We’ve been working on a slightly similar idea but picking just our own stream of Keywords (picked by the crowd) – do check us out at
http://ocricket.com/talk/
So is this considered monetization? and if so, is everyone going to make money from microblogging except for twitter?
TC gets tons of spam every time they write about Glam. Total pollution!
@Ankush I read last week in WSJ that Twitter was working with companies like Tinker to create new models of revenue. Will try monetization from commercial accounts, and also revenue sharing and referral fees from companies like Tinker. Good to see monetization come to Twitter.
http://www.tinker.com is a winner. Will be using it for http://www.TechAviv.com and http://www.NYVideo.org events and sites.
Being able to browse by categories would make this a lot more useful – especially since generic terms like “date” turn up a bunch of dissimilar results. Good start though.
Agree. I tried their event browser at http://www.tink....com/events/all Seems to work well.
Would like to see Search by category, date and map
Nice future to blogging…. as adwords did some years ago
Am not sure if this concept is something new. Am already an addict to http://www.boilingpage.com that tracks the popular web pages in Twitter and it does the same, in fact more than what tinker provides. I have registered several keywords like ‘Social media’, ‘economic crisis’ etc and BoilingPage automatically fetches me popular pages related to those keywords. I’ll have to play with Tinker and see how good it is when compared to http://www.boilingpage.com
Completely different. Yours is a search on keywords app, tinker feels like a well designed and easy way to connect to events and news. It goes and “fetches” and I can start an event as a topic and share it with people on my blog. Liking Tinker very much, lots of people talking about it on Twitter
Looks like a beta release that needs to work out some issues but I definitely like the idea. Gotta say that the trends stuff is interesting. I’ll be keeping an eye out.
Really cool idea. I like the idea of bringing all the stuff together on certain events. But the revenue system is also unique.
I’m going to check out the site
Glam is at it again. Proof will be in the pudding (pageviews, revenue, etc). This is the current day equivalent of advertising in a chat room. we’ll see!!!
This seems like a legitimate way to methodically monetize these types of revenue streams. However, with all new payment systems, it’s a wise choice to do research at an independent site like justaskgemalto the digital security site.
Must stopping looking at trends… must not get drawn in…
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What does Glam do? I think they are the most distracted company I’ve ever seen.
Good to see monetization come to Twitter.