Today’s post comes from Pongrob Saisuwan of TwitBlend. He’s showing us how to use the service. You can follow Pongrob at @twitblend.
There’s so many auto-generated list of tweets out there but the results are mostly spam. So why not make it ourselves?
With a service called TwitBlend you can easily create your own “collection of tweets” or “tweet list” yourself and it’s very easy to use!
This is what I got from spending two minutes on TwitBlend, The Foursquare Cling
TwitBlend helps you search for tweets and arrange, color, share and put it on your website.
How can I make one?
- Click on “Create new blend” on top-right menu
- Enter your Twitter’s account information and click “Allow” to login (TwitBlend uses Twitter’s API so you don’t need to sign up separately.)
- This is “New Blend” page. You can use menu on left-side to search for your tweets, you can see your tweets from your “Home” timeline, “@ mentions”, “Sent by you” and your favourites. You can also find tweets from your own list.
- There’s a search tab for you to search tweets from a keyword or username.
Below is the search dialog:
- After you search for tweets you will see something like this:
- You can drag and drop tweets from the right side to the dropbox on the left side, arrange and color it with “color button” on the bottom of each tweet.
- After you are happy with this list you can click “Save…” at the bottom.
- In this save dialog you can enter the title and tweet it to share it with your friends.
- Now that you have created your own blend, you can share it with your friends or put it on your website using TwitBlend’s widget. Below is an example of TwitBlend widget on my Wordpress blog.
Have you used TwitBlend before? Let us know what you think in the comments!
@laniar
the concept is amazing but the final product is hideous, i can’t use it if it only comes embeddable in 1976 brown. anyone know anyone at leadership at twitblend, any word on customization with that? even if i could just use my current twitter theme as the option, that would be cool.
@twitblend
Hi Lani,
i’m from TwitBlend team and we’re now working on the feature to let you customize your own theme, we’ll of course notify you when it’s ready.
It should be done very soon
@twitblend
Hi Lani,
i’m from TwitBlend team and we’re now working on the feature to let you customize your own theme, we’ll of course notify you when it’s ready.
It should be done very soon
Btw, we’re now following what Twitter’s widget customization does (http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search). Do you think that will do the job?
Thanks for your suggestions
@EkosDeux
I agree with Lani. Great idea, but ugly execution.
@SunzooStudios
Thanks you Lara (and TwitBlend) for this post! While this may seem like a simple idea, I can see the “Twitter-sphere take off” potential here.
I love to share cool stuff I find on Twitter, and with TwitBlend I can not only do it faster, but I can also promote fellow players as well!
@twitblend
@laniar and @EkosDeux
Now you can customize look&feel of TwitBlend widget. This is an example http://www.twitblend.com/widget_custom?blend=24001
You can find link to customize each blend in every blend page.
Thanks for your suggestions.
TwitBlend team.
@share5net
This something that I was looking for. Sometimes I really want to find new things from Twitter, but as I’m reading a line another 20 messages appear. Most of the irrelevant, not only to my interest, but also to life itself
@openworld
I like the drag-and-drop.
Can you –
1) Support multilevel outliner/tree menus, so users can create topic lists and then drag in Tweets into subheadings? This will help manage lots of Tweets more readily.
2) Can you let users right click on a Tweet in such an interface, and create annotations?
Look forward to hearing.
Best,
Mark Frazier
@openworld and @peerlearning
2)
@twitblend
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your suggestions!
1) We’ll look into this
2) Right now you can create annotations by clicking on “comment icon” located on bottom right of each tweet. Btw, this might be too hidden so we’ll also add right click to use this feature.
Cheers,
Pongrob Saisuwan, TwitBlend team