It’s been about 6 weeks since we started working on our first product; TweetMag. We thought we’d lift our heads from its design and development just long enough to share a screenshot with you.
For those who didn’t catch the first post, or who haven’t seen the tweets, TweetMag is an iPad and iPhone app that takes twitter feeds and turns them into wonderfully simple magazines. It works by finding links in a twitter user, list or search – then grabs their headlines, abstracts and media to create a TweetMag. Articles then become prioritized by what’s being tweeted about most.
The shot below shows what my TweetMag would look like:
If you want to stay up-to-date it’s best to follow TweetMag or leave your email address on the TweetMag site.
written by Geoff Teehan
Looking good! Simple idea that could potencial be really useful. Looking forward to the release :)
This is a great idea- Really looking forward to it.
Wooh ! very creative concept !
Looks great! I may have to buy an iPad so I can use this :)
Had a nice chat with Lynch on the weekend about TweetMag. Sounds very interesting and challenging. Can’t wait to use it. First glimpse looks great.
Looks really promising, so I subscribed. Any flight plan when we can expect this to land?
I Like :-)
60 days from concept to market for your incubated projects right? So I’m guessing we’ll be able to start downloading it end of August? ;)
@Qasim: Yes. Still some work to do but it’s coming along nicely.
Looks awesome. What are your thoughts about Flipboard?
How will TweetMag compare to Flipboard?
Oh this is awesome! Can tell from that single screenshot it’s gonna blow Flipboard out the water. Flipboard is a cute toy, but this, this is something I can see myself using every day.
I completely agree with Goobi.
My thoughts on Flipboard are many, deserving of an entire post really. In short, Flipboard is a really wonderful app that has been painstakingly designed and built by some pretty serious players with some very serious backing ($10.5 Million). They beat us to the punch, which is disappointing but it also gives us time to reflect on what we have. I think where our apps differ is that TweetMag will really focus on the content that people tweet about. To some extent Flipboard seems to want to take the place of Facebook and Twitter clients. Ours is really about discovering content regardless of where or who it comes from. You’ll still want to use your twitter client of choice in conjunction with it.
TweetMag is more like Twitter in reverse. Full articles first, then tweets.
The differences will become even clearer once it’s out there.
I whole heartedly agree that this app is going to be way better that Flipboard! After using Flipboard for the past 12 hrs, I really am not impressed. I am trying to see how it would be useful and it is too cluttered for me. But TweetMag looks amazing and can’t wait to try it out!
Thanks for clarifying, I am really excited about what you guys will produce!
I think you have a great idea that’s worth pursuing. For the last year I’ve been personally using an iPhone (and iPad) app that I wrote on the same concept. It has been my main source of news and has amazed me with how thorough it has been compared to RSS and how quickly news shows up (it tracks links from the 1,000+ people I follow on Twitter).
http://news.peepcode.com/
I haven’t put it on the App store, but I think a well coordinated app with a server component that’s customized for individual users could do well.
If you add the ability for a user to create/post tweets and other twitter functions (as opposed to simply retweeting) then I think you will provide better value than Flipboard. I can see TweetMag becoming a frequently used app. And don’t forget list support as well! And based on the screenshot, great work so far and look forward to the launch.
What a great idea for an app… it makes Twitter useful and that is something I thought I would never say. Congratulations it looks beautiful.
Tweetmag looks really interesting. I’ve played with Flipboard and will love to see how they apps differ when compared side by side. I think coming out of the gates and consuming just twitter is very smart, it’s certainly for me my primary discovery engine. I’ll be interested in how it ranks URL (trending among your friends and their friends vs trending against the world i.e. don’t care if Justin Bieber is trending)
I’ll also be very interested to see if you guys start opening up to other sources. Love to plug my google reader OPML source file and see not just how you display the data but how you select what is trending among my peers.
Good luck… can’t wait to see it
This looks great, can’t wait to start using it. :)