There’s no shortage of people who use their Twitter accounts for both personal and business use. That includes plenty of bloggers who send out links to all their articles along with their more mundane updates throughout the day. Some people love this, others hate it, as they just want the links. And while some sites, like TechCrunch, have an account basically just dedicated to those links now, it can still be a hassle to find and follow all of those for every site you want to read. That’s where RiotFeeds comes in.
The service basically hand curates tweets from the top sites in various categories on the web. The end result are feeds that just contain tweets with links from sites of the same ilk. For example, the PulseonTech account features tweets with links to stories from TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Wired and others. The PulseonNews feed features the NYTimes, CNN, Fox News, and others. But those are obvious categories — there are also plenty of not-so-obvious ones, like my personal favorite, TightPantsPulse, which is all about hipsters. Here’s the description of that feed: “Links you probably won’t be into from sites that don’t even exist yet.”
While each of these 20-plus feeds are curated, they are also powered by OneRiot’s PulseRank technology, which it considers the “PageRank for the realtime web”. As we’ve written about before, OneRiot is a real-time search engine that is all about finding the most relevant links being shared on the various social sites in real-time. And by identifying the most popular and relevant shared links, it is able to build consumer friendly-fare like RiotFeeds.
OneRiot envisions that RiotFeeds will be a good tool for novice users of Twitter to use to get to their favorite content easier without having to track down and follow each of the sites they care about most. While Twitter has a “Suggested User List”, it doesn’t currently offer bundle packages of people to follow depending on what you’re interested in, which is something that Google Reader, for example, has. OneRiot also hopes this project will shed more light on its APIs, which were recently opened to the public, so others can use the data they’re collecting.
Such a sweet name.
What’s the difference with merging all the RSS feeds from those blogs and pipe the result to twitter??
That’s a 25 seconds job with yahoo pipes!
hand curation is the difference. not all links to to these feeds go through.
ok.. Are you gonna make the cut? ;p
Then they’d rather pipe directly the feed from digg.com/digg
i meant http://digg.com/technology and so on
Hey Mike,who owns Yafflezone?
Yafflezone,Yafflezone!what a piece of crap,just another bit torrent site.
Editorial power over social media is being tried in a variety of places on the web — perhaps the wisdom of the crowds isn’t so wise after all?
I think it’s a pretty good idea overall, although it raises costs for those involved — perhaps they could decrease costs by using some kind of relevancy data cruncher?
Don’t understand how is this different then sites-own RSS?
Why are we trying to replace that?
Correct, you can track any search term on OneRiot.
Riotfeeds combine a selection of those searches, all of which were curated for uniqueness and monitored for quality – they make use of an existing feature, but deliver it in a easily accessible, discovery-friendly way.
So yes, we basically built something with our own API. Hope you like it (and build something of your own
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But this is assuming that any tweet can be non-mundane, a clearly false presupposition. As Peter Singer argues in his recent essay “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” instead of tweeting we should be donating to UNICEF.
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Its a cool service…but guess Twitter should have this as a feature. I guess Twitter has gone past the early adopters phase. People are interested in following trends for stuffs they are interested in. So categorizing them would make new users task much easier
The difference is the content coming from all of the sources is ranked using OneRiot’s PulseRank algorithm. PulseRank helps ensure that search results and RiotFeeds tweets are ordered based on what is hottest on the realtime/social web and what is most relevant, right now.
Normal company and blog Twitter accounts and RSS feeds are like a firehose of information that is strictly time-based and the amount of content can be extremely overwhelming. RiotFeeds, which is powered by OneRiot, ensures that the content coming from these sites is the most buzzed about information right now.