The link to your twitter account is written withour 'http://' .
Pete
· 11 months ago
Thanks for the heads up! Fixed.
John Stansbury
· 11 months ago
So, basically, it’s Pownce.
That’ll work.
Pete
· 11 months ago
Heh.
Well, Pownce was well-funded with a confusing value proposition that was too similar to Twitter's, I think. This is a much simpler proposal: post longer Twitter messages, add multimedia and post a link on your Twitter.
Andy
· 11 months ago
I have a felling Twitter won't be ok with the name and likeness. I smell a lawsuit...
Pete
· 11 months ago
I dunno...they've been pretty passive so far with regard to variations of the trademark in URLs. They might chase direct infringers ("Twitter" in the URL), but Twitblogs seems less likely to be infringing.
Michael Midnight
· 11 months ago
Now I really like this idea. But moving one step back here, I truly wish someone can make an application that also archives our Tweets. I mean since Twitter isn't doing it, I would have loved to see what I tweeted back a year ago. But if not, I think I can use this TwitBlog as some sort of answer to this.
Patty @littlebytesnews
· 11 months ago
I am using soup.io to archive my tweets & favorites....along with other info I find time to post that I don't post on my regular blog. While I like the idea of new tools& platforms, if it doesn't have apps to support it like twhirl&tweetdeck to post easily it may not last. I like soup because you can feed tweets and videos into,but can also email posts to it. Anyone else using soup.io?
Pete
· 11 months ago
I actually forgot about Soup.io. How does it compare to Tumblr and Posterous?
eschnou
· 11 months ago
I use http://storytlr.com to backup my tweets (and everything else), it also works as a lifestream and a blogging platform. Definitively worth a look if you compare to tumblr, soup.io and the likes.
Patty @littlebytesnews
· 11 months ago
I am not familiar with Tumblr and Posterous, but Soup.io allows you to use your own domain if you want or you use the yoursite.soup.io name. It doesn't offer a lot of fancy features to change the design but hoping it will, I think Tumblr might allow more designing/customizing?
I have lifestream.fm but it doesn't seem to work all the time either, I also don't think it is the same as twitblog,soup.io concept for backups. I'm not familiar with storytlr.com...might check it out for curiousity. So many cool sites so little time...
I do wonder what the big difference between twitblogs and twitwall are?
Garry Tan (cofounder, posterou
· 11 months ago
Tumblr doesn't autopost to Twitter, and to my knowledge, neither does Soup.io (though I haven't tried it recently ;-))
However, Posterous.com autoposts to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and any major blog platform (including Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Livejournal and Xanga). Plus it works all over email.
We also host and transcode and host video, audio, and post image galleries (of unlimited size).
So if you like automatically posting to twitter, and use some other stuff, and like rich media, use posterous.com. =)
This is a good idea, but I doubt that I'm going to use the service. I already have a blog that feeds into Twitter. Unless Twitblogs comes with more features, the service is not going to be useful for me.
sandossu
· 11 months ago
Does it have anything to do with Twitter or is it just a copy ?
Pete
· 11 months ago
It's not built by the Twitter team, no - it purports to be an add-on for Twitter.
Atherton Bartelby
· 11 months ago
I suppose it would be just fine for users who prefer the shorter format blogging with more than 140 characters, but I can't see it competing well with Tumblr's customization nor Posterous' ease of use. I like the fact that Twitter itself is a sort of "addenda" to my primary blog, much as I think of my Tumblr. From what I've seen of it so far I can't see TwitBlogs offering any truly compelling reasons or features to switch to it if users are already using a competing blog / tumblelog platform.
Kim Werker
· 11 months ago
"This is a much simpler proposal: post longer Twitter messages, add multimedia and post a link on your Twitter."
A blog is already that (with something like Twitterfeed to handle the tweet-making). Twitter without the character limit is... just like any other blogging platform. I'll stick with Tumblr which, as you said, has more robust features and is a great intermediary between long-form blogging and tweeting.
Shaun
· 11 months ago
I like it. Thought about something related.
It seems like Twitter fits so nicely with commenting systems. So perhaps there is no need to deal with blogs, as much as the commenting systems used by blogs?
Perhaps TwitComments = Twitter + Comments.
Could be tricky to do in 140 but it would be nice to have a view of both the tweets in response to a post as well as the comments left on the post. You could apply 140 limit to the headling + a short URL to the body of the comment and perhaps to the original post?
glmaranto
· 11 months ago
Let's all migrate to Facebook right about now, shall we? Twitter constitutes an improved socialmedia version of IM-cum-usenet. Pics and URLs are possible. All rest: fuss and bother.
Eric Frisch
· 11 months ago
I can see some value in this, if you're looking for a really simple solution - but most of the folks that I follow/follow me on Twitter already have far more advanced blogging solutions that they rely on - seems it would be hard to "scale back" to this...
Rebecca Leaman
· 11 months ago
I don't know... at first blush, I see no compelling reason to add yet another platform to the arsenal, when blogs can feed straight to Twitter already. There is something about the 140-character format that I like very much (although by nature a rather wordy type) - perhaps because quick tweets make it easy to scan quickly for interesting info and get it in condensed form. With these Twitblogs links, wouldn't there be a tendency for what got tweeted to be less informative, less valuable in itself, without clicking through from Twitter to the Twitblogs url? ...But I reserve the right to change my mind :-D
Pete
· 11 months ago
I agree that limiting to 140 characters forces brevity and often leads to more creativity than a blank canvas of unlimited space. It's not as though people say "I love Twitter, but the 140 character limit frustrates me" - quite the opposite, in fact.
Jessica Smith
· 11 months ago
Interesting concept but I don't think it will stick. Bloggers probably won't use it much because, well, they already blogs that they can tweet out when they post.
As for Tumblr...I use Tumblr to create my press list on my blog, I don't see Twitblogs being able to replace that. But I will be curious to see who uses TwitBlogs and how long a shelf life it has.
Twitter + Tumblr + Blogger pretty much covers all the bases.
Kevin Curry
· 11 months ago
Twitter + Tumblr + Blogger pretty much covers all the bases, i.e., desired levels of detail.
paisano
· 11 months ago
Seems to be a trend. I've been using something similar called TwitWall.com which serves as something between Twitter and a blog post. Too much for a 140 character tweet and not enough substance to warrant a full fledged blog post. Here's a sample of my twitwall. http://twitwall.com/view/?who=paisano
I think Twitter just needs to buy one of these guys and add the option. We would have the option to just read the 140-character tweet or click through to the longer message like TwitWall does.
Pai
Lucretia Pruitt
· 11 months ago
Honestly? The reason I prefer Twitter over "longer form" platforms like Pownce, Tumbler, FriendFeed, [insert one of dozens here] is that it does force people to get to the point.
All that taking the 140 character limit away does is encourage people to blather on for longer than they would otherwise.
Can't see using a service that loses the strength of twitter but doesn't have the functionality of a full-blown blog. So nope, not staying on my radar.
Devakishor
· 11 months ago
I believe the beauty of twitter and the reason why it's a success is largely due to the 140 characters limit. Many blog platforms offer "follow feature" now but none of them has been able to popularize and use the feature like Twitter.
And I wouldn't want a Twitter + Blog. I prefer the way it is now, Twitter and Blog.
Twitblogs
· 11 months ago
Thanks Peter for the review. We are officially launching on Monday at Europe's largest twitter party - www.twinterval.com Thanks everyone for the comments.Feedback is always good.
FYI: Twitblogs was built in just three weeks and this is a really just an alpha. That said it has been designed for enterprise scalability. Its built on Solaris, MySQL and Apache plus we are using Zend PHP not Ruby. We have also used Anazon's S3 for image storage and CloudFront for rapid content delivery.
As for Twitter, they are very aware of us and have whitelisted twitblogs. Equally Fred Wilson their biggest VC has also seen twitblogs. We are a complimentary service to twitter not a competitor.
In the coming weeks we will start to add in the type of features that I hope people will find useful such integrated search, groups and openid support. Some of the other really exciting features I cannot reveal today but once twitter turns on the new API with oAuth support we will have a host of functions ready.
If you want to keep you to date with twitblogs pls follow us on twitter - @twitblogs.
apierno
· 11 months ago
what makes twitter useful is not that it lets you get your 2000 word diatribes about the traffic you just dealt with off your chest. quite the opposite. it is bite sized pieces of info that make it easier for people to FOLLOW your musings. and the musings of hundreds (or thousands) of others. it can be easily updated and scanned within 5 minutes. if you need an outlet for longer prose, there are more than enough outlets available. while followers will abide a few meaningless 140 char posts, the will drop a twitblogger that is equally dull, but longwinded.
Michael
· 11 months ago
There is also Zaplife.com!
Brandon
· 11 months ago
Clicking through to view just a longer version of a tweet seems a little annoying. What if there was integration with programs like Twhirl and TweetDeck so that they can display the longer tweets without requiring you to click through?
Cheri Sigmon
· 11 months ago
Hmm. Much has already been covered above, including intellectual property rights and comparisons of SM applications. So, "a simpler proposal: post longer Twitter messages, add multimedia and post a link on your Twitter?"
Well, maybe... I prefer Blogger for its built-in SEO angle, but I don't post there too often. I prefer Twitter's brevity and simplicity for most (micro) blogging. I prefer using TweetDeck over TWhirl, and there are other 3rd party app's I haven't tried yet! I'm willing to give any SW a fair test run.
As for "archiving," I prefer to actually delete *old* posts when they're no longer relevant. Helps to focus my content for new followers, clears out the clutter, and helps the geeks balance the load on their servers during such rapid growth. I don't need archives; I use the old Notepad (ascii). I like the comparison above of "IM-cum-usenet." Who else here remembers USENET? That was useful back in the day, before spam prevailed over it!
Echo. ;-)
@CheriSigmon
Kiran
· 11 months ago
I tried it, its simple and could be useful for some folks who don't actively maintain blogs.
Dhyarga
· 11 months ago
I love this twitblogs, thanks
Justin
· 11 months ago
Twitter meets ticket broker. National Event Company launches first ticket broker twitter page. blog.neco.com
Pedro Cardoso
· 8 months ago
Here's a good post for folks to better understand what Twitter is, and how to use it!
I think TwitBlogs is a good idea. I think Twitter is to busy getting big to worry about small companies using a name similar to their name. I think in the future they will only go after websites who use the word Twitter in the url not just something similar.
I want to check to whom and how many followers i have sent direct messages. Is there any tool to do so?
Steve Patterson
· 6 months ago
My blog, when I post an entry, it Tweets my account of that new entry. Twitter is becoming a fast growing community on the Web. We shall see what else Twitter will come out with and allow you to use or do.
Jane
· 4 months ago
I LOVE Twitter!
petecom
· 4 months ago
Hey Everyone! Anyone That Likes Funny Videos, Pictures, And Games Check Out My Profile!!
All Comments
That’ll work.
Well, Pownce was well-funded with a confusing value proposition that was too similar to Twitter's, I think. This is a much simpler proposal: post longer Twitter messages, add multimedia and post a link on your Twitter.
I have lifestream.fm but it doesn't seem to work all the time either, I also don't think it is the same as twitblog,soup.io concept for backups. I'm not familiar with storytlr.com...might check it out for curiousity. So many cool sites so little time...
I do wonder what the big difference between twitblogs and twitwall are?
However, Posterous.com autoposts to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and any major blog platform (including Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Livejournal and Xanga). Plus it works all over email.
We also host and transcode and host video, audio, and post image galleries (of unlimited size).
So if you like automatically posting to twitter, and use some other stuff, and like rich media, use posterous.com. =)
A blog is already that (with something like Twitterfeed to handle the tweet-making). Twitter without the character limit is... just like any other blogging platform. I'll stick with Tumblr which, as you said, has more robust features and is a great intermediary between long-form blogging and tweeting.
It seems like Twitter fits so nicely with commenting systems. So perhaps there is no need to deal with blogs, as much as the commenting systems used by blogs?
Perhaps TwitComments = Twitter + Comments.
Could be tricky to do in 140 but it would be nice to have a view of both the tweets in response to a post as well as the comments left on the post. You could apply 140 limit to the headling + a short URL to the body of the comment and perhaps to the original post?
As for Tumblr...I use Tumblr to create my press list on my blog, I don't see Twitblogs being able to replace that. But I will be curious to see who uses TwitBlogs and how long a shelf life it has.
http://twitter.com/Majento/status/1056205978
http://twitter.com/Majento/status/1056239357
http://twitter.com/Majento/status/1056247443
http://twitwall.com/view/?who=paisano
I think Twitter just needs to buy one of these guys and add the option. We would have the option to just read the 140-character tweet or click through to the longer message like TwitWall does.
Pai
All that taking the 140 character limit away does is encourage people to blather on for longer than they would otherwise.
Can't see using a service that loses the strength of twitter but doesn't have the functionality of a full-blown blog. So nope, not staying on my radar.
And I wouldn't want a Twitter + Blog. I prefer the way it is now, Twitter and Blog.
FYI: Twitblogs was built in just three weeks and this is a really just an alpha. That said it has been designed for enterprise scalability. Its built on Solaris, MySQL and Apache plus we are using Zend PHP not Ruby. We have also used Anazon's S3 for image storage and CloudFront for rapid content delivery.
As for Twitter, they are very aware of us and have whitelisted twitblogs. Equally Fred Wilson their biggest VC has also seen twitblogs. We are a complimentary service to twitter not a competitor.
In the coming weeks we will start to add in the type of features that I hope people will find useful such integrated search, groups and openid support. Some of the other really exciting features I cannot reveal today but once twitter turns on the new API with oAuth support we will have a host of functions ready.
If you want to keep you to date with twitblogs pls follow us on twitter - @twitblogs.
Well, maybe... I prefer Blogger for its built-in SEO angle, but I don't post there too often. I prefer Twitter's brevity and simplicity for most (micro) blogging. I prefer using TweetDeck over TWhirl, and there are other 3rd party app's I haven't tried yet! I'm willing to give any SW a fair test run.
As for "archiving," I prefer to actually delete *old* posts when they're no longer relevant. Helps to focus my content for new followers, clears out the clutter, and helps the geeks balance the load on their servers during such rapid growth. I don't need archives; I use the old Notepad (ascii). I like the comparison above of "IM-cum-usenet." Who else here remembers USENET? That was useful back in the day, before spam prevailed over it!
Echo. ;-)
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