Introducing inagist.com
How often has twitter been your source of breaking news? Think Mangalore plane crash, gulf oil spill updates. How many times in the recent past did you learn about those tid-bits from your twitter stream? Think Google Pacman doodle, iPhone 4G leaks. Now think how often have you felt that an important tweet has gone un noticed because of the volume of tweets that keeps coming into you, or of how often you have refrained from following people because you are not able to keep up with your existing tweets.
If you are not so much into twitter but often heard about it, have you wondered if you could get information that mattered to you out of twitter? Could twitter be your portal to the web?
We present inagist.com, a real-time tweet filtering system, which sifts through those thousands of tweets which are flowing in to your account and show you just those ones which are interesting, or thought to be of value by other people. We rank tweets based on the perceived relevance of the content of a tweet. We then show you those tweets which are relevant, sorted either by time or relevance. You can do the normal activities then on a tweet of replying, retweeting, favoriting etc. Additionally we pull in url summaries, media previews in place to give a complete reading experience. Tweets are pulled in from people and lists you follow, so go ahead either follow that person or add him/her to a list of yours, or follow those lists that @scobleizer has painstakingly put together. We advice you to follow directly those people that matter to you so your twitter page looks clean and interesting, your inagist page will sort and rank tweets from all those numerous others. Once you authorize your Twitter account with InAGist we regularly sync your account information to keep abreast of your follow changes. Go ahead try it out at http://inagist.com/<your twitter handle>, we are at jebui, chjeeves, netroy.
For those twitter unaware we present inagist channel pages. These are curated twitter accounts on specific topics, world news is at worldnews.inagist.com, India news at india.inagist.com, geeks at geek.inagist.com. We have created twitter accounts which follow sources on these topics so you can come in and get your taste of tweets. Tweets from these acounts are ranked as explained before so you get to see only those tweets from these sources which are relevant. All those channels are listed at twitter.com/InAGist/channels/members.
Now we are still in early stages of development and not opened to the whole twitter crowd. Do check if your account is already enabled at http://inagist.com/<your twitter handle>, if not please authorize inagist app and we will enable as we go along.
Your feedback is important to us, feel free to get back with comments, feature requests, bouqets, brick bats - @inagist is the preferred channel. InAGist is a product offering from Iyotta Software.
