Groups on Twitter
A while back I posted on Twitter and similar platforms in relation to groups. “Groups” is an ambiguous word, so I cleared it up to be more precise about what I mean, here’s a little re-hash:
Groups - community type shared interest member groups, or perhaps an aggregation stream from a bunch of people, like a public version of one of your contact groups (in this instance there are no members)
NOTE: Channels are similar to Groups, but people are not members. A channel is not organised and doesn’t really have an agenda beyond existing, the topic is usually short eg. #athletics. Whereas a group topic could be more precise eg. Women in athletics who have won medals but had them taken away due to steroid use, and a group could have sub-topics.
Contact Groups- organising your contacts into folders/tags
Groupings - based on implicit attention or on a slice of data such as: people who also saved this bookmark, people who also bought this book, all Twitter users located in Perth, a Techmeme cluster of all the people who posted on this meme (or all people who linked to this site)
Groups
TweetPeek (no longer exists)
Tweet Thread
Tweet Boards
Twapper (mobile)
Crowd Status
Twitter Digest
Twitter Teams (like a channel-hashtags-but limited to a group of people)
FlockUp (a communal contact group, but soon this will stream tweets)
Twitterpacks (a place to find groups or people by topic, location)
[ADDED 17/12/08: Twitter Groups]
[ADDED 23/03/09 : tweetworks - twitter groups]
[ADDED 24/03/09 : Tweetizen - create a Twitter group…unlike tweetworks this is not a member based group, rather it’s public streams you can make based on keywords or sources]
[ADDED 08/05/09 : Twibes - join an open group and view the latest tweets]
[ADDED 09/05/09 : Tinker - create a keyword/group stream]
Channel
Twemes (mobile)
Hashtags
Roomatic
TweetChannel
[ADDED 08/05/09 : Twubs aggregates various types of hash tags]
Groupings
Twitterlocal
@locals
TwitterWhere
Another TwitterWhere
DailyTwitter
[ADDED 18/03/09: Nearby Tweets]
[ADDED 28/05/09: hoodlenow]
TweetMemes and others
TwitScoop
Tweeqs
Twitterholic
There are also lots of recommendation services based on groupings data, here’s a few:
Twubble
Twits Like Me
Twitter Poster
Twannabe
Contact Groups
Twitly (mobile coming soon)
Tweetdeck
[ADDED 18/01/09: TwitTangle]
Something Twitter are working on
[ADDED 25/02/09: Peoplebrowsr - enables to create contact group streams (called tags), there is also a default one called VIP. You can even search within these streams. And it does much much more.]
[ADDED 1/03/09 : Ginx does Twitter groups]
[ADDED 08/05/09 : TweetGrid - create group streams of up to 30 people]
[ADDED 18/03/09: filttr]
CONTACT GROUP DIRECT MESSAGE
Twitter Groups
TweetParty
GroupTweet
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