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November 9, 2009

Cadmus Groups Duplicate Tweets, Actually Works

Louis Grey posted about Cadmus earlier today, and the idea of grouping duplicate tweets to remove noise is a great one. 

Better yet, it actually seems to work. For Tweets anyway. Cadmus also supports FriendFeed and RSS, but I haven't had luck with RSS yet. I had some odd results importing my 150-ish subscription Google Reader OPML. It pulled in thousands of old items in no discernible order. But it did group 30% of them...

Here's Cadmus in action, grabbing 8 posts regarding Google's acquisition of Gizmo5 and rolling them into a single nested tweet. By clicking "Related Posts", you expand the grouped duplicates. Now THAT is cool.


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September 28, 2009

Reportage: An iPhone Twitter Client with Focus

I follow < 200 people on Twitter, which is paltry compared to many. But even with that relatively low number I can lose track of a few contacts. Days will go by without one of their posts making it into my short-term viewing window, which prompts me to wonder what they've been up to lately. I guess groups would help, but honestly I hate dealing with Twitter groups. Having to keep each group updated, dealing with flipping from group to group when I read, wondering if Jeff Atwood really belongs in my Dev group or my Interesting People group...ugh it's a pain. Especially using any of the available iPhone clients. (TweetDeck = CrashDeck on the iPhone). I stumbled across an interesting iPhone client called Reportage that quickly and easily answers the question- "dude, what have you been up to lately?"

Reportage bills itself as "the radical Twitter radio tuner for your iPhone", and it really does take a unique approach. Reportage displays your Following list and overlays unread counts over it. At a glance I can see how active people have been. With a click, I can drill into their most recent updates. Think how cool that is- with 3 clicks I can get the most recent local Boston news, TechCrunch articles, and quotes from ShitMyDadSays. Trying to do that using a client like Tweetie would have taken me 15 minutes. Reportage also has a nifty little radio dial UI, where you can scroll across your contacts with a flick and "tune in" to each.

If you're currently following thousands of Twitter users, then you likely don't really care what most of them are up to at any given moment. With that kind of overhead, Reportage may not be for you. Also Reportage is missing some standard features that you just absolutely must have if you want to be a real Twitter client. Like search, trends, Instapaper/View In Safari, and Go To User. However it's a great start and a unique client which is probably worth the 99 cents to check out.

   
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Reportage_An_iPhone_Twitter_Cl.zip (71 KB)

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