Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.
Now, to be clear, most users still won’t be able to use this geolocation support just yet, as Twitter has yet to enable it for most users. But if you do happen to have it, Seesmic supports it. As you can see in the screenshot, it looks pretty nice. If you see a little location marker on a tweet, you can hover over it to bring up a Google Map overlay showing where that tweet was sent from.
Last week, we previewed Tweetie 2.1, which will include geolocation support as well. Seesmic’s method looks like it may be a bit easier since it only requires a hover state to get to a detailed map of where the tweet was sent from, whereas Tweetie 2.1 requires two clicks (to the tweet and then on the tiny map to get a more detailed version).
Meanwhile, List support looks solid in Seesmic Web as well. As you can see in the other screenshot below, when you hover over a Twitter username, you have an option to add them to one of your Lists. Another web-based Twitter client, Brizzly, rolled out it support for Lists last night. The plan is to have all Brizzly “Groups” (a feature that worked like Lists) synced with Twitter Lists by tomorrow. Presumably, Seesmic will have its lists synced with Twitter Lists tomorrow as well.
It’s not yet clear when Twitter will do a wide roll-out of its geolocation support, but with several third-party services looking ready to go, it seems likely that it will be realatively soon. Following Lists full launch last week, Twitter has also begun testing its new Retweet funtionality to a small set of users.
Along with Lists and geolocation, Seesmic Web has a new Trending Topics area it is rolling out today as well.
it’s pushed live now to all users, lists are also self refreshing.
Not to be a markup creeper, but, what’s with all the comments in your web-based client…? Like explaining what a doctype is:
And what’s “fine” as a title:
I recognize those as the template GWT markup. Apparently they never cleaned it out.
Hahaha.
By far my favorite web based twitter client. Glad they added lists so quickly.
MG, you forgot to add the disclaimer “Mike Arrington is an investor in Seesmic, I am not”
We will soon be calling for your head
no one gives a shit about twitter anymore; and twitter clients, what kind of lame market is that? it’s like retard on retard.
+1000000. Agreed.
ugh. shameful to use the word retard as a slur. ever wonder how that makes people with special needs feel? Yes…they are human beings with feelings and they get when you mock them.
So after dozens of Seesmic posts there’s no more need to mention that Arrington is an investor?
Yeah every day there is an article about seesmic that s nuts! How much lemoeur pay them? who cares about twitter clients! totally agree with @lemon obrien
I actually like Seesmic’s web client… have been using Twitter.com for as long as I’ve been on Twitter, but Seesmic – once whatever bug was giving my Chrome issues was solved – works really well for me.
Twitter info http://bit.ly/4yHGXq shows user’s location
i dont like seesmic just because it consumes high memory…
there is no future here
Who really cares about this feature one-upmanship among the Twitter third party apps? Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Brizzly, Tweetie, CoTweet, etc. What’s clear is that this is already a commodity market where there is little differentiation and brand loyalty among users. There is no doubt we have entered a Twitter ecosystem “bubble”. Most of these companies will fail because in a commodity market you cannot sustain high margins; btw, I say this knowing full well that Seesmic and the others don’t have a business model today (except maybe for iPhone app purchases) and probably will never have a business model. Loic can gloat all he wants about 3 million downloads but the reality is that he is operating in a market characterized by low switching costs, low brand loyalty, feature wars, low margins and scalability issues. If I was an investor, I would be getting myself fitted for an extra wide pair of Depends.
wow, excellent comment Jarin.
I think these guys are all gunning to be “acquired” by Twitter or maybe Facebook (in the case of Brizzly). That’s probably their business model.