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CrowdStatus Becomes a Twitter Client and Other Updates
Written by Allen Stern - April 26, 2008
CrowdStatus allows you to create live groups of people you follow on Twitter. Josh at Webware has an indepth review of CrowdStatus from earlier this month. I've asked for this type of functionality before - the ability to follow different groups of people for different things. For example, on the mobile, I'd like only x and y sent but on the Web client, I'd like everything.
Below is an screenshot example of a crowd created on CrowdStatus for the ReadWriteWeb gang. Here's another one for the CNET gang. It'd be great if you could grab a crowd widget.
I spoke with creator Darrent Stuart who shared two major updates for the application launched yesterday. The first one is to use CrowdStatus as your Twitter application. Rather than going to Twitter, you can send updates inside of CrowdStatus. To set up the updates, add your Twitter login info to your account.
The other update is the ability to create crowds of protected followers. By providing CrowdStatus with your Twitter credentials, CrowdStatus can create crowds of people you follow that are not public.
If you've created a crowd, post a link in the comments - would be interesting to see a variety of crowds.
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Well more twitter news is good - but - do we really think they have value? Marshall K thinks so, and I think and have thought, there is value to twitter. Now they just start to make some profit - how? Advertising I'm sure. :)
Sorry Allen, the private crowds is not in yet, The other updates were auto refreshing crowds and crowds arranged by latest tweets.
The big one is the twitter client preview. In the next version with the private crowds users will get the new twitter client in thier crowds list.
Hopefully within the next week or so the privae crowds and a few more ones not been mentioned.
biggest request is to embed it as a widget so I am playing with several ways of doing it at the moment.
Thanks Darren - got ahead of myself apparently. Widget would make the app totally viral!
yeah the question is a full page widget or a blog sidebar widget?
I have a badge ready to roll but I think people want the crowd on their sites. now JS or iframe is the other question :p
options my man, options!
but i'd say 120ish sidebar would be first - yes crowd - some slick scrolling thingy might work well
Ok, noted /me grabs pen and papper.
yes to widget -- a bit of what fbook does by displaying 3 tweets below your own status update. but like the twitter widget w/ a fade in and out, going back number of a configurable number of tweets for those users who have a large crowd and high volume?
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