Brizzly, the web-based Twitter client that was first unveiled at our Real-Time Stream Crunchup in July, continues to roll out the improvements. After allowing users to upload and host their own pictures on its servers a few weeks ago, last week saw them give the service a significant speed boost, which also brought stream auto-updating. Today, the service rolled out the ability to send invites to other friends.
If you haven’t tried out Brizzly yet, you really need to. It’s a great way to use Twitter from the web thanks to its inline images and videos, new reply and message indicators, and most importantly, the ability to group the people you follow. You can also mute people in your main feed if they’re at a conference, or doing something for a set period of time that you really don’t care about.
I’ve gushed previously about the grouping feature, but the auto-updating is really nice as well. Rather than having to reload the page each time to see if there are new tweets from the people you follow (as you must on Twitter), Brizzly will pull in news ones automatically every so often. Long time users of Twitter will remember that it used to automatically pull in new updates back in the day (the feature was killed off to reduce server strain). This is also standard on FriendFeed (though Brizzly is not working quite that fast yet).
Brizzly also recently updated it own tutorial video to walk new users through some of the features. Find it below.
I’ve seen Brizzly in action — very smooth UI. Looking forward to seeing it evolve.
Wow! Very slick! I wish I had even a fraction of the founder’s UI design skills! =)
I’ve been using Brizzly for a couple months now and it’s my default access to Twitter. I noticed the auto-updating this morning and was quite pleased. It’s a great product and I enjoy being surprised by the continual improvements.
I like almost everything about Brizzly except their character of a bear in a bird costume. The concept is fine but not the execution. I think it’s poorly drawn. (This opinion brought to you by a professional cartoonist.)
i like the bear! the bear is so cute
Another cool tips but I just use basic twitter…
Very well executed I”m very impressed. Why doesn’t twitter innovate with their UI?
I like brizzly, you guys are all on their nuts! It’s cool though, they have a great service and deserver the attention. But still!
This is how Twitter’s UI should be, looks amazing.
How does it generates revenue?
Awesome service! Very nice interface. The speed improvements are welcome, as well as the auto-update.
when it comes to all these twitter startups I wonder if they have a plan if twitter falls off or isn’t popular anymore or some other player like plurk or whoever becomes more popular?
I see all these apps and just wonder what is their 2, 3 and 5 year plans are.
ok so let me get this straight, use a webapp to use another webapp? wow that sounds like the epitome of useless. let’s invest $5 million and give them a $65 million valuation! yea!
Any shit pass through techcruch becomes gold. It’s all about marketing
Hahaha SocialScope for the BlackBerry has had those capabilities for months!
Very cool client! I love how responsiveness of the UI.
It is a quality site and offers a wealth of utility and power features. http://www.tren...raging-twitter/
Thanks for sharing it. I visit brizzly. It was fine but I will still go for twitter. Just to make things simpler and easier.
Wow it looks and acts just like FriendFeed.
Really good design, makes Seesmic web look amateurish.
I recently switched from Seesmic to Brizzly, the keyboard shortcuts and grouping are real winners for me.
I like almost everything about Brizzly except their character of a bear in a bird costume. The concept is fine but not the execution. I think it’s poorly drawn. (This opinion brought to you by a professional cartoonist.)
really nice and slick interface, any Idea of the Business plan?
5 additional invites available here:
http://www.tren...dslate-readers/
@randypollock True! It looks and acts like FriendFeed.
But I personally feel that its very professional and perhaps even @twitter can learn a lot from @brizzly interface
I received an invitation for this but haven’t had an opportunity to interact with the web client. As you recommend highly I will when I get a chance this evening..
I great thing about Bizzly is that you can add someone to a group without actually following them. It may sound a little lame, but I like the ability to add someone as part of a group, but not have to see their tweets in my main twitstream.
I haven’t gotten an invite from brizzly yet, but I can’t imagine that it’s really all that much better than hootesuite http://hootsuite.com/ I’ve come away very impressed with this web-based client, and I doubt I’ll look back.
Anyone can get in using this invite code:
plinkysentme