Press release -

Twingly pivots their aggregation service to group communication and microblogging

The blog search and enterprise social media service company Twingly launched a social aggregation tool called Twingly Channels in 2009. Today they release an update of the tool that changes the focus from social aggregation towards group communication and microblogging.

Last year Twingly had a strong focus on sales which resulted into reaching break-even, a healthy long-term goal for the company. During 2010 development efforts were made to Twingly Live and Twingly Liveboard, two real-time services that became popular among event organizers and media. By developing services like Twingly Live and Twingly Channels the company are exploring how they could develop tools for social conversations both for consumers and businesses.


With the release this week, the main view in a Channel is the Conversation view, showing all messages and comments among the members of the Channel. The link aggregation view is still present and very useful but is no longer the main view, this turns Twingly.com into a group microblogging tool rather than a RSS aggregation tool. A Channel on Twingly.com is like a discussion forum where the messages you post can be long or short however the user likes it.

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For more information, contact:

Martin Källström, CEO of Twingly, 
+46 733 628 654,
martin@twingly.comtwitter.com/martinkallstrom

Topics

  • Web media

Categories

  • social media
  • group communication
  • group microblogging
  • microblogging
  • twingly channels
  • realtime
  • twingly
  • real-time web

About Twingly

Founded in 2006, Twingly is the creator of Twingly.com, the popular blog search engine featuring a spam-free, faceted, social search for the global blogosphere. Twingly.com currently serves 25M+ search results per month, most through the Twingly API. With services based on leading edge real-time technology, for example Twingly Channels and Twingly Live, the company is aiming at making the real-time web more accessible for all internet users.

Twingly has been instrumental in driving change in European media by connecting mainstream media with blogs through its enterprise offering Twingly Blogstream, a moderated trackback function for large websites, providing measurably higher visitor engagement and greater attention in the blogosphere. Twingly Blogstream is used by 100 newspapers, magazines and television channels in ten countries, helping them get more attention from bloggers and generating 300M+ monthly widget views.

Twingly is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden. For more information visit Twingly.com. Follow Twingly on Twitter at @twingly and on the Twingly blog.

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