TweetSmart’s a new Twitter application that aims to find the best of the web and put it in front of you with the help of its users. Anyone can contribute once they’ve contacted and been followed by “twsm”, allowing you to share what you’ve found that you think would be interesting for the rest of the web community. All you have to do is send a direct message from Twitter to twsm including the category your news falls under and what that news is. Categories range from real estate to social media to fun to events. Soon you’ll be able to follow via RSS the specific categories that interest you and be able to vote on the best of that best content in Digg style to help the best pieces of web material climb to the top.
"TweetSmart is all about putting the best of what’s on the Web in front of you right this second. It works because folks sift through the news of the day and then share the nuggets with all of us. The more folks we add the more of the Web we cover. You can be one of the smart folks sharing links too — simply follow the user 'twsm' (we'll follow you back and then you can post) on Twitter or send us an email!
By following the TweetSmart feed we get the best-of-the-best without having to pour over the tons of new content everyday. It’s the proverbial separating the wheat from the chaff right in front of our very eyes."
By following the TweetSmart feed we get the best-of-the-best without having to pour over the tons of new content everyday. It’s the proverbial separating the wheat from the chaff right in front of our very eyes."
The fact that there is much more meat to this application than the basic link finder from people’s tweets and that people have to actually send a message and go out of their way to categorize the content will help to make the material that ends up on TweetSmart be of a higher quality and be less made up of spam. All of the future features will help to make it far more of a rich utility than the ones currently available using Twitter as their backdrop.
Will they filter out users who tend to post meaningless or more spam content than good? Will people use this kind of site to find the best of the web when there are already popular alternatives such as the original Digg and specific sites dedicated to those various categories they’ve included?
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