TweetDeck as the Real-Time Browser
Popular Twitter client TweetDeck recently launched a List directory featured extensively on the site’s home page. Unlike competing sites that rank lists solely by number of followers, TweetDeck lets you vote lists up or down, add comments to them, and get recommendations based on your profile. It also features a handy feed of all the new lists being created on Twitter.
TechZulu caught up with TweetDeck Founder Iain Dodsworth during the LeWeb conference with the Traveling Geeks. According to Dodsworth, the goal is to make TweetDeck the real-time browser. Instead of browsing Web pages, he says, users will browse streams of information from different sources – mainly Twitter – but also Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and the like.
However you look at it, TweetDeck is in a healthy position. The company has raised around $2 million in funding, mainly from New York-based BetaWorks, and Dodsworth is a darling among developers in the Twitter applications community. We look forward to what’s in store for 2010.
