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Brizzly's Sharp Twitter Web Interface Hides Loads of Unique Features

Source: louisgray-com

Sep 04, 2009

Summary

As Twitter becomes infrastructure, and its features become well-known, it has become a challenge for third-party clients, like TweetDeck, Seesmic, HootSuite, Tweetie and others to separate from the pack. But a recent entrant, Brizzly, has a serious advantage that looks to be paying dividends. You see... the core team consists of Google refugees who left the Mountain View mothership after years of working on cool projects like Google Reader to try and continue innovating in a new space (much like Ev and Biz did when they left Blogger and eventually founded Twitter).

The team, properly called Thing Labs, also responsible for Plinky, has in a few months' time created a unique Web interface to Twitter that supports grouping, multiple accounts, inline multimedia and photo support. In addition, the site has also taken on a unique approach to managing the ever-popular trending topics from Twitter, and has an ace in the hole which lets you mute somebody who might be dominating your feed.

For the last six weeks, I have been using Brizzly, in addition to my monitoring T ...Read the full article

Comments (1)

Thejeffbrown,

Sep 06, 2009

This Twitter client seems to rival TweetDeck and Seesmic if Louis Gray is to be believed. I'll be checking this out for sure.