Plea for Thwirl - Twitter Thread Monitoring
Seesmic, just launched a new Thwirl support for FriendFeed. I posted about this on CapturetheConversation.com.
What I love the best about the application is the discussion tracking in FriendFeed.
Now, I use Twhirl for tracking and responding to Twitter too.
Lack of Thread Monitoring
My biggest compliant or frustration with Twitter is the lack of "thread monitoring".
Here's the issue:
I'm following @smazurov on Twitter, and I see that he's posting comments on Twitter to someone that I'm not personally following. Example below is @smazurov is posting to a comment made to @xbrowne:
Now, since I'm NOT following @xbrowne, I can't see the original post that @smazurov is responding to unless I go directly to @xbrowne's twitter post.
I relate this to the equivalent of buying a movie ticket and only getting to listen to one actor in the movie. You miss all the other conversational context in which that actor is relating too.
Personally, I use Quotably.com to track conversations on Twitter. This is what Quotably is able to do for the conversation mentioned above:
Now I can see what Twitter post @smazurov was responding to, in addition, I can see what other people are involved in the quac-blocked conversation.
So the killer app for Twhirl is to provide the conversational thread monitoring in Twitter on Twhirl.
In the meantime - it's Twitter Me Insane. I'll keep spending my day between Twhirl, Quotably and Summize to try and get a real picture of what's happening on Twitter.
BTW, you can follow me on Twitter at:
http://www.twitter.com/jamesoclark
and stalk me Friendfeed at:
http://www.friendfeed.com/jamesclark
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