The Twitter Ecosystem’s Spark
For those of you into Twitter, Tweetmeme might become another must-use tool.
Much like Techmeme analyzes and aggregates the most popular/active blog conversation, Tweetmeme does the same for Twitter.
If it lives up to its potential, Tweetmeme might just be the service that single-handedly sparks an explosion in the Twitter development community.
This isn’t to diss the growing number of Twitter-related services out there but if something emerges that captures the attention of content consumers and the imagination of developers, Twitter could become a far more interesting landscape.
(Hat tip to TechCrunch).
More thoughts: It stuck me that one thing I don’t particularly like about Tweetmeme and Hashtags, for that matter, is they follow many conversations, which is the whole point. That said, I like Twitter because you can control the number and type of conversations.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Mark, care to compare and contrast to Hashtags?
http://techfold.com/2007/12/18/another-tag-silo-twitter-hashtags/
January 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Rod:
I like your idea better about being able to follow Flickr, Twitter, blog posts, video, etc. Hashtags and Tweetmeme have potential but the interface for both is far from ideal right now. To start, there needs to be some tagging/customization so you can follow the conversations that interest you.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Cheers, Mark - the lack of interface between services is a frustrating thing - if you read through the comments on that hashtag posts, Chris Messina talks about stitching it all together with ATOM category tags - which sounds like a good first step to me.
On the aggregator I work on in my spare time, I’ve resorted to parsing out post titles into keywords and matching posts into conversations based on the degree of keyword overlap - a clunky workaround to an annoying lack of consistently presented metadata. Anyway, interesting stuff all around!
-R
January 29th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
[...] I’m fitting this in while visiting family, so this post is late, and likely short on insight - that being said, after pouring hours and days and weeks of hobby-time in building a relevancy algorithm (see: techwatching) I feel the need to comment on Tweetmeme, which launched yesterday to much fanfare. [...]