With our usual love of trying new things we have started playing with paper.li which creates a daily ‘newspaper’ view of tweets.
Not only does it gather the tweets but also features the media and content to which they link.
Paper.li is in alpha release at present. Check out the widget in our sidebar and click through to see the paper.
This one is based on the libsinteract twitter account and the accounts that it follows, but other ‘papers’ can be set up to prepare a roundup based on a hashtag.
Please take a look and tell us what you think.
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August 11, 2010 at 00:37
“Newspaper-style”? Really? Somehow, I have yet to see a newspaper where the front page was just a bunch of topics and numbers, and topical pages only include a sentence or so of each story before a jumpcut. It leaves me cold–as “newspaper-style” blogs and sites, with lots of teeny intros and too many jumpcuts usually do–but that’s just me.
August 12, 2010 at 14:24
It looks a bit like the flipboard app for the iPad? What I love about flipboard (and no, I don’t have an iPad, just Flipboard envy) is being able to see a bit more than just ‘click here’ with a URL that is totally non descriptive (like a bit.ly or tinyurl). This seems to have a similar interface and similar ‘bigger chunks’ to look at up front.
Like all of these things I think setting it up and playing with it is the only way you’re gonna know if it’s potentially good
And how else do you find out you needed something you didn’t even know existed a week ago?
August 12, 2010 at 18:14
Walt and Clare thanks for telling us your thoughts on this. Newspaper is probably not the best analogy for this mashup of tweets, but I quite like getting an overview of tweets and a taste of the media and content that is being linked to. I know there are a lot of tweets I miss during the day and maybe this will give me a chance to peruse at least a selection of them.
August 13, 2010 at 17:39
I just had a play and it struck me that it may be a good way to demonstrate the value of a twitter account to a non user. If they can see the content presented in this style they may start to get it as personalized subscribed information not as a river of tweets.
August 28, 2010 at 14:59
It’s quite hard to keep our follower on Twitter. By seeing the content presented with this style, they will personalized subscribed information as Sue said. Very great article! Thx