The Twitter Times is an interesting news site that is built on top of the Twitter real-time stream. The site describes itself as:
“The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account.”
It basically monitors the global real-time Twitter stream, identifies news stories that are tweeted and re-tweeted, cross-references them with you friends and their friends, and brings them all in one, well-organized place. The best part of it all, you get the all the news stories on one page – no visiting multiple sites, no following links to see what the tweet is about.
The Twitter Times is a time saver for me. I follow almost 200 streams on twitter. There is no way I can read them all. Some of these streams are of my friends, and I’d like to read them all; others I follow for the news they post, which I can now read on the twittertim.es.
I had the pleasure of meeting one the creators (@mariagrineva) and speaking with another (@maxgrinev). Congrats Maria and Maxim!
Thank you for the great post! It is a really good explanation of the main idea behind The Twitter Times. The Twitter Times can also be useful to find like-minded people among friends-of-friends. More on twittertime.es features in our post: http://maxgrinev.blogspot.com/2009/07/twitter-times-real-time-personalized.html