Now start many applications magazine, is a new content aggregator based around Twitter users, lists and hashtags. TweetMag it focuses on one of features (tweets as content) and expands that concept further. What TweetMag does is look for tweets that include links, then displays them in a magazine format.
It starts by creating a 'magazine' out of your own Twitter account, but also offers a collection of popular Twitter users and lists in categories such as Entertainment, Art & Design and Music.
Like the other media iPad apps looked at this week Flipboard, TweetMag is visually slick and a pleasure to use. It is however often slow to load new items. "Fetching articles from Twitter this will take a few moments" is a screen message you'll need to get used to. And if a particular Twitter account or list hasn't tweeted any links for a while, you may get no content at all!
The iPad is a visual, design-friendly platform and so the magazine format has been a perfect fit for it. But is it being overdone by new media applications like TweetMag?
Modeled heavily after the magazine, Flipboard was the first and is still the best iPad media aggregator. Like all innovators and first mover products, Flipboard quickly attracted copycats and apps that used it as a template from which to build something new. TweetMag is the latter, because it does offer something fresh. It's potentially a very handy tool for organizing all of your Twitter lists and favorite Twitterers at least the ones who link a lot.
It starts by creating a 'magazine' out of your own Twitter account, but also offers a collection of popular Twitter users and lists in categories such as Entertainment, Art & Design and Music.
Like the other media iPad apps looked at this week Flipboard, TweetMag is visually slick and a pleasure to use. It is however often slow to load new items. "Fetching articles from Twitter this will take a few moments" is a screen message you'll need to get used to. And if a particular Twitter account or list hasn't tweeted any links for a while, you may get no content at all!
The iPad is a visual, design-friendly platform and so the magazine format has been a perfect fit for it. But is it being overdone by new media applications like TweetMag?
Modeled heavily after the magazine, Flipboard was the first and is still the best iPad media aggregator. Like all innovators and first mover products, Flipboard quickly attracted copycats and apps that used it as a template from which to build something new. TweetMag is the latter, because it does offer something fresh. It's potentially a very handy tool for organizing all of your Twitter lists and favorite Twitterers at least the ones who link a lot.
