New apps like twitter, newspaper application for iPad called BroadFeed, just prior to its iTunes launch. On the consumer side, BroadFeed offers several features to entice new users in this increasingly crowded "social magazine" space.
It automatically works with your Twitter account and your custom Twitter lists to organize the topics based on popularity, allowing you to read the most important items first.
The iPad's form factor has inspired a number of startups to create personalized "social magazine" experiences that re-factor the information being shared by your friends on social networks into a more magazine-like format designed for the iPad.
Among BroadFeed's competitors are FlipBoard, NewsMix, TweetMag, Zite, AOL Editions, Yahoo Livestand, paper.li, Pulse and many others, all angling to be your social magazine of choice.
In BroadFeed's case, the app looks only at tweets with links. The most popular items appear at the top of the screen in a larger box, while less popular items trail further down the page.
The app does the same thing for your Twitter lists, assuming you use that feature. BroadFeed's "Week in Review" section highlights the hottest stories from the past week by surfacing the top items from across BroadFeed's network. Where BroadFeed needs work is on the user interface itself.
itunes note : BroadFeed is not a Twitter client. It is designed for reading the content shared on Twitter, not tweets. The minimum timeframe is set to 6 hours for proper content aggregation and prioritization. For up-to-the-minute updates, please use a Twitter client.
