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Tweetizen – A Simpler Way to Group Tweets
I’m sure a lot of you wish you could split the people you follow on Twitter into groups based on friends, family, co-workers, or subject matter. Well you can. Maybe you’ve tried TweetDeck or PeopleBrowsr – both of which can do this, among many other things. You have to download TweetDeck and (correct me if I’m wrong) you have to configure your groups twice if you download it on two computers. PeopleBrowsr is a hugely complex webapp that loads slowly on average internet connections and attempts to merge Twitter with other social apps.
All these extra features and functionality make TweetDeck and PeopleBrowsr cumbersome when the only thing you want is to group the people you follow, and nothing more. Tweetizen may be the solution to this problem. The interface has no slow-loading frills and is (at least for me) easy to immediately understand. While I believe that Tweetizen definitely has the potential to solve my Twitter woes, it is currently a work in progress. Right now groups can’t have more than about 7 people. So I created 3 groups to hold one type of people, which seems to be a good workaround for now. They’re planning to roll out a lot of new features in early May, so I’m looking forward to it.
Sign up, try it out, let me know what you think.
Have you found any other apps that let you split your Twitter feed into groups?