It’s All Monitoring, Where Is The Retweet?
There are several ways to monitor your social stream but why isn't there anyway to share it? By sharing, I am thinking beyond having it duplicated to Friendfeed. I want to be able to post the interesting Tweets I see and that spark additional thoughts or opinions. Since everything IS about monitoring I am satisfied I won't miss anything. When I'm watching.
With Threadsy you can monitor your email (aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail), Twitter (multiply accounts even), Facebook, and even IM (if you're still using it), all within your browser. One tab and in real time. It's not all inbound because you can also compose an email or update your status. Directly to each service.
Friendfeed offers such a wide variety of feeds it will digest. You usually end up duplicating your posts and the content you're watching. This is how Friendfeed becomes it's [your] own worst enemy. You end up sharing so much from the song you're listening to right now, as you're reading this, to what you'll be eating at a lunch meeting. It can get noisy quick. In order to turn down the noise you need to focus in on one user, one group, or do a search. Not an appealing way to post or share your content.
Everything seems to be in real-time. This is true, but I still like to read certain blogs. So you'll still need a reader. I like to use Google Reader but prefer to read it through Feedly. Feedly in Chrome is best. It's not all reading either. Feedly offers nine 'share buttons' that allow you to share anything you've read with your social network. One of them is my favorite…see below. It is however missing a source: Twitter. My choice, yes, because I could add an RSS feed of my Twitter stream. The downside is that it will be a LOT of updates to sift through in Feedly.
Posterous makes my blogging easy. As easy as email. I know, cheesy and straight from their site. However it's true. If you're not familiar with Posterous, all you do is send your blog post via email to post [at] posterous [dot] com. Posterous will then send that post to any additional social network you choose. My posts go to Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, and an old WordPress blog I stopped posting to after the election. I picture Posterous as a mega-phone.
So yeah, I have several services I like. They all work extremely well. The only thing is they are all still missing something. Posting. Not just the ability to post but what I want to post. I could see any of these three services filling my need. I am purposely leaving out Friendfeed.
I need the ability to make a blog post out of any status update I want.
If it's from Twitter, I want to turn a status update into a blog post. With the quoted status update and users avatar in the post. As it would if you linked to a specific update. I want this blog post to be done through Posterous. I don't want Posterous to loose site and become a funnel too. I'd rather they stay a megaphone and handled it through their bookmarklet or an added service to something like Threadsy. If it is added to Threadsy then I could comment as I see it coming through my Twitter stream. Allowing me to have my thoughts when I have them; in real-time.
As I was writing this something struck me. I am looking to redefine what it means to "RETWEET". If any of the services I love would think of it as redefining 'retweet'. I believe a solution could be integrated into any of them. (Hint: Threadsy add a Posterous box below the 'retweet' button in the unbound window under each update.)
I left Friendfeed out because I think Facebook is going to do exactly this. Redefine the 'retweet'. Facebook isn't the service I want though.
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