MicroPlaza: New Twitter Tool
Tech | No comments | February 23rd, 2009
I have been in on the private beta for a new Twitter based service for the last couple of weeks, called MicroPlaza. The concept is very powerful. It looks at links in a twitter feed and groups all tweets with the same link together under that link. So it is a great way to see what links or topics are getting a lot of buzz. The cool thing is that you can filter based on:
- Public timeline
- Everyone you follow
- Any sub-set of people you follow!
In other words you can create very specific meme trackers based solely on the people you are interested in listening to. Here is a screenshot of a specific subset (called a Tribe in MicroPlaza) that I have set up.
This tribe is called “Social Enterprise”, where I follow, among others, @monkchips and @rhappe. You can see here that they have each recently tweeted with links.. This particular screenshot has the results sorted by time, but you can also sort by popularity.
This is an early beta release and there are a few UI issues that they are working on, but I expect those to be cleared up shortly. My understanding is that they opened up for public beta today. Try it out and let them know what you think.
As for me I plan on using it heavily. It provides the filtering of the information stream I have been looking for.
Congratulations to my friends @olivero and @slgavin for putting this together.