More and more people are consuming their news through Twitter and using it as a sort of personalized RSS reader but the noise can be slightly overwhelming and it can be hard to find all the quality content between people promoting their own content. New service Twitter time.es is trying to solve that problem by creating a personalized newspaper for you where you can easily digest all the best most relevant content that appears in your stream. It is an ambitious project but they claim to be able to filter the best information not just from your followers but also from followers of your followers.
You can sign up for the service using your twitter account and your first newspaper will be delivered to you within the hour and on an ongoing basis they will be delivered every 30 minutes.
You can also grab a copy of other people’s newspapers to see what they will look like with Tim O’Reilly and Read Write Web already listed on the service.
Interesting project and with new features on the way it could be something the old media publishing world will be watching very carefully. I read my first copy this morning and it makes decent reading and is all very fresh and relevant content. Here is a short video explaining the service…
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This sounds (and looks) good to me. I’ll come clean here and admit I don’t use Twitter, and part of the reason is the noise you mentioned. It’s too much clutter and one can easily get sidetracked. Since time is no doubt of critical importance to everyone, a tool like the twittertim.es, that allows users to sift through the information and discover new, interesting users to follow, by basically cutting or reducing the search cost will probably be welcomed with much interest. If they introduce a way to segment the information by categories of interest and/or geographical regions and send me a different email on each category, I’m in!
This seems to be interesting. I have just signed in. It will take an hour for the personalized news to appear. But with the links RWW posted on this post, the app looks to be promising. The interface is good.
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