Twimbow: a colorful way to visualize your tweets

By | July 13, 2010, 8:48am PDT

For Twitter clients, I prefer a one column desktop app, but I’m always open to trying new things. Normally, I’m not a fan of 3 column layouts for Twitter because I simply don’t have that much screen space.

Twimbow is cool though.


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I had a chance to try the pre-alpha version of the site, and it’s appealing.

The left column is all of my recent activity, the middle is my tweet stream, and the right column is a search query of “@mager”. You can customize the middle column to show a Twitter list too.

I don’t think I’ll switch away from Tweetie, but this is definitely a cool way to interact with Twitter.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager works for Spotify.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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