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Tweetree Lets You Share Content In The Twitter Stream
By Anna Johnson on June 5th, 2009To date, a limitation of Twitter has been the ability to share actual content in the Twitter stream. You can certainly share or view a link to content, but not the content itself.
A new service called Tweetree offers to change all this. By logging in to Tweetree with your Twitter username and password, you can get hold of content other Twitter users are sharing without having to click on a link.
Tweetree lets you use Twitter as you normally would, but when someone posts a link, the service acquires the content on the relevant webpage via its RSS feed and places this in your Twitter stream.
According to TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, long content is placed in a frame that you can scroll through, and the end result is that you never need to leave your Twitter stream to access the content people are Twittering about.
As MG points out, not all content is available via an RSS feed and that not all RSS feeds are entirely reliable. But hey, so you’ll still have to click on some links…
Source: MG Siegler, “Tweetree Puts Actual Shared content In Your Twitter Stream,” TechCrunch, June 3, 2009
