Twitblogs Takes Twitblogging to the Next Level

Back on Dec 14th I created my first post on a service called Twitblogs. For those of you that sometimes find yourselves really aching to post more than 140 characters on Twitter, but you really can’t be bothered to create an actual blog, Twitblogs is for you. You even have the option to embed media within your posts.

Deja Vu?

Right now, you’re probably wondering why this sounds familiar. Well, just recently we covered Twitwall, which is pretty similar to Twitblogs. Both allow you login with your Twitter information, create posts, and embed media. Both automatically feed your posts into your Twitter timeline and allow other Twitter users to leave comments on those posts.

There are some major additions on Twitblogs, though:

• Twitblogs has a more polished look with a lot of AJAX stuff going on. Things slide around and fade in and out. The interface is just really slick.
• It integrates your Twitter timeline in a tab so that you can tweet right from the site and see all your incoming tweets
• Twitter search is integrated in case you need to find anything

A Twitter Interface?

Yeah, it is a bit rough around the edges right now (auto-refresh isn’t working pending some updates on the Twitter side), but the potential is there to compete with my favorite Twitter interface: iTweet.net. There are features to: retweet, reply, favorite, and direct message. You can view favorites, replies and dm’s. There is even an option to shorten URL’s.

The integration of the Twitter timeline is key simply because it means I don’t need to have yet another web application open. With so many services being built on the Twitter platform, it’s nice to know at least one of them is attempting to simplify my experience rather than add on to it.

Final Thoughts

Twitblogs is currently Alpha and there are definitely some bugs, but I think it could be a very useful service in the near future. Just in the time since I first stumbled upon it, there have been some really cool fixes and feature updates. They have an ambitious (although “hush hush”) development roadmap. I also hear they’ll be ready to activate OAuth on day one…or on whatever day Twitter decides to actually implement it. There is much more to come, so keep an eye out and get at them @twitblogs.