Tweetvisor Blog

Last night we’ve added the feature Twitter made possible via API: adding a short description for the Lists you create via Tweetvisor.

A description may have maximum 100 characters and it is an optional field.

You might have experienced a small issue last night before we implemented the description – creating a list without the description field might have been rejected by Twitter API (see discussion). This problem has been solved with adding this new “description” field to the form that creates lists.

We will soon add all other features related to Twitter Lists. Your suggestions will surely help making these features an even better experience.

We started showing the first timeline of the Twitter-style new Retweets feature.

Your Tweetvisor menu now has a new item, “Retweets By Others” (might need to refresh the whole Tweetvisor page), that will display the most recent retweets posted by your friends.

What is different in Tweetvisor compared to current Twitter.com layout for the retweets, is that we display the picture of the person who retweeted near the picture of the original author. This way you will probably be less confused when you will see a tweet from a person who might not be in your friends’ list.

Not all Twitter Retweet features are available via API as of now, but we will surely implement them as soon as they will be released.

Our current thought is that these new Retweet features will be offered in addition to the classic RT function you are using today. It will all depend on how well this Twitter Retweet will be done and also on our users’ reactions and feedback.

Yesterday Twitter made available a new functionality for their API library: search for people, just like you do today on Twitter.com.

We’ve implemented this feature and now you may access it in the “Search” tab on Tweetvisor. You will notice a new check box mentioning “Check to Search People (names and description)” that will enable you to search for people names and description rather than just the classic search for tweets.

This new feature will work very well now in conjunction with the Twitter Lists you may use on Tweetvisor since early November. That’s because the people you will find using the new Search People tool may be quickly tagged and added to any Twitter Lists you may have created – check out “Add to lists” link near each user name in search results timeline.

Tweetvisor is an early adopter of Twitter Lists. Hours after they have been officially launched for API, Tweetvisor added these features (November 5th) to help you manage the Twitter Lists:

• Syncronize Groups with Lists. If you created Groups before Twitter Lists have been launched, you may export/syncronize your Tweetvisor Groups to Twitter Lists. Follow the link under the Lists drop down box in Friends Timeline or the one in Lists tab on Tweetvisor. Check out the demo video as well.

• Create a new list. Follow the links and on-screen instructions to create new Twitter Lists via Tweetvisor. A list’s name must start with a letter and consist only of 80 or fewer letters, numbers, ‘-’, or ‘_’ characters.
• Manage Lists. Go to the Lists tab and monitor “Lists you follow” and “Lists following you”. More features will soon be implemented in this tab.

• Tag people/Add to Lists. In any timeline displayed in Tweetvisor, each tweet has a link “Add to Lists” that you can access to quickly add the people that updated that tweet to your Twitter Lists. This is like adding Tags to people you are interested in.
• Read the Lists. Friends Timeline has a drop down box you can access to display tweets contained in a Twitter Lists.

We’ve been a TECH Cocktail participant and enthusiast for quite some time, so now it’s time to get more in the action by demoing Tweetvisor at the 11th Chicago edition of this technology unconference.

Creation of Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, the TECH Cocktail event will take place at John Barleycorn Wrigleyville in Chicago, Thursday August 6, starting 6:30 PM CT.

RSVP here and come see Tweetvisor unveiling new features!

Photo credit TechCocktail.com

Thousands of links are being shared every day on Twitter. There is definitely a lot of noise out there, but you’d still like to find out latest news and articles, or what people are talking about your brand or company.

For most of these shortened links you see within friends’ timelines, you would probably like to check if anyone else has considered them a value or of enough interest to be read and shared. Or maybe you simply want to follow all conversation that goes around the world for a topic mentioning your brand/organization or your blog articles.

As a solution to this trend, Tweetvisor is now displaying world wide reactions to any URL shared on Twitter and listed with the web-based application, via newly launched ContextVoice service.

How this works on Tweetvisor

• First, Tweetvisor is expanding via LongURL.org all URLs found in any tweets listed in Twitter timelines, so you can preview the full URL and page titles before clicking on shortened links with unpredictable content.

• Under each full URL you will find a link to expand via ContextVoice the list of ALL world wide reactions for that article or web page (check the large snapshot below).

About ContextVoice

ContextVoice is a London-based Romanian startup, who’s leaders are known for also creating SeedCamp-winner uberVU. Their system is crawling various web platforms from which it thoroughly gathers all comments and reactions for a specific article URL. In their own words, it sounds like this:

ContextVoice gets comments, reactions, mentions around a URL from all over the Web. For example, if a blog post gets commented on, if it has trackbacks that also have comments, if it gets shared on Twitter or FriendFeed, if it gets comments on Digg or Reddit, ContextVoice sees this as a single conversation that it tracks in close to real-time.

So forget the simple keyword mention. If a customer’s brand is mentioned in a blog post, there’s a wealth of data in the comments on the blog, on Twitter and on FriendFeed. Most of those comments will not contain the specific brand keyword. Although the comments express very valuable opinions, that information is lost. The only solution is tracking the whole conversation, wherever it goes around the Web. That’s where ContextVoice comes in.

» Learn more from their launching post on ContextVoice Blog.

Send us your feedback and reactions about this new feature on Tweetvisor

Check out the snapshot below to see how we’ve implemented ContextVoice’s magic on Tweetvisor. And send us your reactions to this feature, along with any feedback related to your experience while using Tweetvisor.

About Tweetvisor

Tweetvisor is a United States-based Romanian startup, a web-based fully-featured Twitter application developed by Nelu Lazar. From the long list of all features Tweetvisor offers for its users since January 2009, we mention some here:

• Manage multiple accounts (personal, corporate etc.)
• Multi-column templates, with auto-refresh (replies, DMs, hot-topic and various timelines)
• Tabbed browsing (each user, trend, hashtag, stock ticker etc. has its own tab)
• Display conversation threads (to better understand friends’ tweets)
• Groups and user Tags (for categorizing your friends)
• Search box, integrated
• Save favorite search topics
• Complex searches, geolocation search, with option to save search query for later use
• Reply to All, Reply, DM, RT, Favorite inline quick buttons
• Youtube, Vimeo and Metacafe inline thumbs
• TwitPic and Pikchur inline photo previews
• Picture uploads via TwitPic
• Stock tickers links
• Hashtag links
• Feed Reader, integrated, that allows adding and listing RSS feeds, and displays ContextVoice world wide reactions
• Hot Topic tab, that auto-refreshes tweets about a favorite topic
• Mouseover replies opens “in reply to” tweet
• Twtask, TweetShrink and MrTweet integrations
• Live Twitter trends list
• URLs preview, with world wide reactions via ContextVoice
• Shorten URL services (bit.ly, cli.gs, is.gd, snipr.com, tinyurl.com, tr.im, twurl.nl, u.nu etc.)
• Manage followers
• Favorite tweets list
• Inline video replies
• Secure sign in to Twitter accounts via SSL (OAuth on its way)
• Power User of the Day (linked badge for most active “feedbackers” and users)
• Featured Users panel (linked Twitter avatars for people using Tweetvisor)

Everyday you find interesting people to follow on Twitter. MrTweet can help you by matching your profile with other Twitter users and returning a suggestion list with people you may want to follow.

We’ve now partnered with MrTweet to allow you to check directly from Tweetvisor’s interface the list of recommended people carefully selected by MrTweet for you. This integration was made possible due to newly launched MrTweet API.

With MrTweet integration, Tweetvisor is adding even more value to our web-based Twitter client, that also offer few innovative features many applications have recently integrated as well, including Twitter itself: save search terms for later use, tab-browsing interface, and most recent Feed Reader tab that can be accessed in the very same Twitter environment to follow and read the most recent blog posts you’ve subscribed to.

We hope you’ll enjoy MrTweet’s integration with Tweetvisor and that you’ll find its tweeple suggestions very useful. Stay tuned for even more good news like this, we keep climbing.

Tweetvisor is invited to TwoGuysTech podcast show tonight, April 19th.

Please direct your questions about Tweetvisor to the hosts @art_ (Art) and @port16 (Mike), or Tweetvisor’s founder @nelulazar (Nelu).

The show will be broadcasted Wednesday Apr 22nd 2009, on TwoGuysTech.com website. Wish us good luck!

We’ve finally decided to share with you the main reason for why we’ve created Tweetvisor.

You need to know from the very beginning that creating some yet another fancy Twitter application that just lets you tweet and receive replies and DMs was not our initial thought.

Well, the reason we started creating Tweetvisor back in late December 2008 was this Hugh MacLeod’s tweet:

Tweetvisor = “Tweet Advisor”. We want to propose a solution that would help people interact before posting a marketing or personal branding message on Twitter. The wrong way to do it could mean losses on multiple plans that might interfere with your personal influence or, if applicable, the growth of your business.

The feature is not implemented yet, but it will soon be an additional module on Tweetvisor. Don’t worry, current features will always be there and we will continuously work on improving them.

We definitely accept your suggestions for this implementation, so that it can help you best. So, do you sometimes need help or advice before posting a tweet?

There are multiple tags out there on Twitter that people are using to find tweets related to seeking or offering jobs. On Tweetvisor we are trying to point these tags out in a new toolbox accessible from the link right below the update box area, near the Tools links.

Besides common popular international tags, Romanians for instance can quickly access tags like #oferjob (job offer) or #cautjob (seeking job) that are ultimately aggregated on local Romanian website http://microjobs.ro.

You can also filter Tweetvisor job searches’ results by adding other keywords to the search query string, for example #jobs san francisco or #hiring marketing.

If you have suggestions for other popular tags related to jobs, that people might find useful, please submit them to @tweetvisor and we’ll have them added to the list.