Twitter puts many things straight in front of you that you have already been thinking about. Marjolein Hoekstra of CleverClogs fame provided the alert to look at TweetChannel today. I got the invite this afternoon logged in and created a couple of channels. (One isn’t working Brand2.0 – probably the period in the code).
I set up a channel for #socialmedia so start your tweet with #socialmedia and it will be added to that channels content. There’s no ownership once the channels set up. Like all tagging what goes in could mean different things to different people. So we’ll see what the value really is. Currently there is no RSS feed for the channel. So I added a “track” #socialmedia to my Twitter. I’ll see it that works. In the future it could be easy to create or select who broadcasts in the channel (ie your own personalization) different slices build by just sorting on various contributors names.
I liked the #quotes channel idea. I’m sure there will be others. I’ve been thinking for awhile about various alternative for capturing and using Twitter content. TweetChannel just demonstrates another simple twist on how it might be used. Another illustration of how something simple is creating or leading to increasingly complex behavior. If you aren’t playing with Twitter, it would be my number 2 or 3 behind social bookmarking for understanding where social media is going. Facebook being the other.
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Thanks for the tip, Stuart. Funny thing is, Stowe Boyd http://twitter.com/stoweboyd has been using those hashes around proper nouns in his tweets for months. If he signs up to Tweetchannel, the # of channels will increase exponentially!
Hi Derek, Thanks for the comment. Funny thing is when I was writing the post I thought about Stowe and his #’s and then forgot all about it. I’m fairly certain that tweet channel only works on putting the # hash at the beginning although I know no reason why every word couldn’t be turned into a tag. They would then be #tags. I’ve thought about doing something similar myself.
Exactly! then doing tracking is no different to following tags (a la Technorati). Then it moves the snetworking aspect of Twitter into a new dimension
I like http://twemes.com better, or it’s easier to understand, than TweetChannel.