Loving Twylah
A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a new Twitter service called Twylah. The only problem was that you had to wait for an invitation to actually join, since it’s still in beta.
Now, I’m not exactly a very patient guy, so I tried again yesterday – requested an invite – and pinged the man behind Twylah on Google+.
Today I received a message in my inbox, saying that my personal Twylah page had been created.
I checked it out immediately and… fell in love with it. This is great: it’s like my personal Twitter website. Not just a page, but a real site.
You can check out my page here. When you do, you’ll see that there is a general front page, on which my most important and popular tweets are featured, as well as my latest status updates. What’s more, Twylah has automatically categorized my tweets, and created separate pages for separate subjects. See for instance my Facebook, Social Media, Google+, Twitter and Blogs pages.
This is extremely handy: my Twitter followers – or you, for that matter – can simply head on over to my Twylah page, see what I’ve tweeted, retweet it, read the articles I link to, and share your thoughts with me. It’s… amazing.
Yet so simple.
Which brings me to the following: a lot of Twitter users criticize Twitter because it doesn’t ship enough. There isn’t any innovation going on, even though there is certainly enough room to give users something new.
Twylah is one of those services that Twitter itself should have offered users. Sadly, however, the folks who run this social network seem to be more than happy to continue the status quo.
In any case: I’m loving Twylah already. If you also want to create your personal Twylah profile, you can do so here.
Share your thoughts: What do you think of my personal page? Are you using Twylah already? If so, do you like it? Please share your opinion; your feedback matters to me.
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I love Twylah! I got a page for myself and made one for our RockstarTribe. It’s a fantastic tool and very well put together. I can’t say enough about Kelley Kim. She works hard and does a great job with support and communication. Saw your page. Looks great!
I love Twylah too and appreciate your sentiments. I particularly love the fact that it organizes what I curate into a nice looking site. Other Twitter summary tools like paper.li and Summify seem to just assume that if you follow someone you’ll see value in a page being created from your followers’ tweets. At first, I though this was interesting, but could never get into it.
Twylah is a great tool for me as a curator – precisely because I’m filtering my followers’ content already into a more concentrated stream.
Thanks for your post. Twylah is definitely going places!
Hi Betsy and Jay,
Thanks Betsy! Really appreciate that. Yes, they’re working hard, trying to get this project going. In my estimation, it’ll go a very, very long way indeed. It’s simply brilliant – as said, it’s a shame Twitter didn’t come up with this themselves.
Exactly, Jay. It really pays to curate now. In the past, that was more useful for yourself and your very loyal followers. Now anybody can just check out your Twylah page and check out your tweets (and retweets).
Thanks so much Michael for this wonderful post! And thank you Jay and Betsy as well for the compliments – we are truly honored.
Please let us know if you have any feedback, or if there is anything we can do for you (e.g. get you set up on a custom domain,…)
Eric, thank you for responding and for providing such a great service. I’m enjoying myself tremendously with it already. Job well done.
Setting up with custom domain, etc.: what’s possible in that regard? What are the costs involved, etc.?
I assume that means that our Twylah pages can get a profile such as, say, “http://michaelstwylah.com”? If so, that’d be great. How does that work? Can we adapt the page to our wishes, then? Such as using it to promote our ebooks, etc.?