Twitscoop, a real-time visualization tool and web-based Twitter client, that lets you see hot trends and buzz on Twitter, has launched an iPhone app. Twitscoop’s site, which underwent a makeover in May, gives you an in-depth look at what’s hot on Twitter via a real-time tag cloud and an in-depth trending topics feature that also lets you search for trends on Twitter and Tweet directly from its platform.
Twitscoop’s iPhone app, which costs $0.99 on iTunes’ App Store, has much of the same functionality as the site. You can see the real-time buzz on Twitter via a tag cloud, where words grow, shrink, and disappear automatically depending on their usage on Twitter. You just watch it and it changes like an animation. The app’s trend algorithm also detects and pulls out buzzing words, breaking news and trending rich content (i.e. links, pictures, and videos). You can click on these topics and popular words to access the most recent Tweets about the subject.
One of the key features lacking in Twitscoop’s iPhone app, however, is the ability to tweet from the app itself. The site recently added this capability, but it’s unclear if this feature will be included in the iPhone app in the future as an update.
There are other iPhone apps out there that offer a glimpse into what’s trending on Twitter, including iTrends, ReTweet and Summizer. And many of the Twitter client apps that let you Tweet from your iPhone, such as Tweetie, Twitteriffic, and Twittelator, also include a trending topics feature. Clearly the arena is filled with competitors, so it may be tough for Twitscoop’s app to gain serious traction, especially since the $0.99 app is competing with free apps which are more fully-functional.
Why is this getting coverage when there are 600+ apps (approved by Apple) added every day? Oh, I know! Because it has to do with Twitter!
Agree. LAME.
Sweet! Now I can beam random nonsense written by twits straight to my screen. It’s almost like http://f2bbs.com but better!
How many apps will serve the same purpose? Only the booming trend of Twitter makes things happen. If Twitter goes off what would these apps serve for?
well tweet tweet is the buzz now and i think we will see lot of applications for twitter
An attractive another iPhone app from a Twitter client. Twitscoop has also entered into the competitive iPhone app field. The animated real-time buzz on Twitter via a tag cloud and an in-depth trending topics features are quite interesting. But the ability to tweet from the app itself is a lacking feature,which is a must nowadays.
Clearly the arena is filled with competitors, so it may be tough for Twitscoop’s app to gain serious traction especially the competition with the free apps which are fully-functional!
A tag cloud? Way to select the worst UI idea ever put into practice.
agreed. tag clouds are an interesting idea but make pretty awful user interface. too hard to digest info quickly b/c it’s seemingly random info (just look at the snapshot in the article)
help us all! maybe a nicce tool for trendbloggers..who the f else?
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I remember someone doing something like this when Digg was all the rage.
Not sure what this would mean beyond looking for the kind of massively breaking trends. I think this type of information only really becomes useful as the field of focus is narrowed to be specific to your interests (e.g. what we’re working to do to automatically build a radar based on your business keywords).
And what is the use of this?
Try something actually useful, like “Stick It”: http://www.tapf....com/Stick%20It