Tweetree: A better Twitter
By Emily Price
No one could have anticipated how popular Twitter has become. I can remember trying the service out in its first live weeks and thinking that it couldn’t possibly make it past its beta release, now just a short while later we’re seeing more and more people join the service including some pretty big name businesses.
One new service Tweetree makes it even easier to use Twitter. If you’re a new Twitter users, one thing you might have noticed is that when you log in you get to see the last posts from those that you’re following. If you’re not on Twitter 24 hours a day, then you’re likely to not have any idea what many of the tweets you’re looking at are even about.
Enter Tweetree.
Tweetree will put posts in a “tree” form so you can see what the original post was, and then all the subsequent replies, getting you up to date on all your twittering much faster than jumping between different people’s profiles on the site. One downside is it posts all replies on your screen, so you could easily fill up your homepage with one conversation being posted several times.
One really awesome feature of the site is that it takes links (that are displayed on twitter as tiny url’s) and displays them as the photo or video that is referenced in them (assuming you’re linking to a photo or video) or tells you exactly what a page is called someone is linking to (for articles and what not) rather than sending you aimlessly out into Tiny url land.
Otherwise, the site looks and feels exactly like twitter. You log-in to the site using your twitter username and password and you can update your tweets from the site just like you can directly on Twitters site (or using any of the gazillion other twitter programs). For me, I think it’s well worth signing into Tweetree instead of straight up Twitter for my basic tweeting, if only for the ability to see what all the links are (and especially photos and video) before clicking on them.
What do you think? What’s your favorite third party Twitter site?
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December 29th, 2008
I can’t use Twitter on the web, but I’ve to see threading like the original Tweetworks and the newer Tweetree integrated into TweetDeck. I believe Mike Langford, from Tweetworks, is in talks with the people behind Tweetdeck to possibly make that happen.