After tweeting once every couple of months that I’m looking for an app/service that allows me to consume the links/photos/videos the people I follow are tweeting about, I was finally introduced to Readtwit (Thanks, @fchi!)
As people continue to get more and more comfortable with Twitter and start following more people, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with the firehose of information contained within. While I’ve accepted I won’t always be able to keep up on people’s tweets about walking their dogs, going for a run and cooking dinner (I’m guilty of all three so settle down), I would like a way to stay up on all the media that’s being shared. Enter Readtwit.
Put simply, Readtwit creates an RSS feed of all the things the people you follow are linking to and converts it into a nice, clean RSS feed that you can dump into many of the most popular readers out there.
See below for an example of what a Mashable post looks like in my Google Reader. Notice how they include the context of who tweeted the content and what they had to say about it.
Also, in the footer of every piece of content, they give you two really useful links. One that allows you to hide future links from the person who tweeted that piece of content and a link that enables you to let them know that a particular piece of content is rendering incorrectly – presumably due to complications parsing, etc. (This weekend I was having problems with links coming from Radar and Twitpic.) The latter is more interesting to me because it shows that they are leaning on their users to help them create a better experience for everyone.
As someone who’s a heavy information consumer primarily using Twitter/Google Reader/Instapaper as my main tools of choice, I get the feeling that Readtwit is going to fit right in and actually streamline some of that workflow.
If you’re in a similar spot with your content consumption, I highly recommend you give it a try: Readtwit.
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looks great! must try it sometimes!
maybe google reader could also integrate a similar technology to expand the articles with partial feeds..
looks great! must try it sometimes!
maybe google reader could also integrate a similar technology to expand the articles with partial feeds..
Nice find – Twitter can be far too noisy.
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