MyTweetMag

Recently there has been a lot of interest in paper.li, which is a service that lets you create a Daily Twitter newspaper from the tweets of those you follow. 

MyTweetMag, takes a different approach; it lets you create a Twitter magazine from your own (selected) tweets.  The core-functionalities of the MyTweetMag service are as follows:

• Join with your twitter-account
• Start your own magazine and give it a name and description
• Filter the newsstreams with a hashtag (#) or another codeword
• Add twitter-friends as co-editors
• Activate and edit a calendar
• Activate and edit a special news-section
• Integrate it as a newsticker into a wordpress-blog with the MyTweetMag-plugin
• Subscribe to other magazines
• Rate magazines
• Search for news, tags and tweetmags

Take a look at this video, which explains how to create your own TweetMag.

Here is MyTweetMag's own TweetMag, and I'm trying mine out here.

Comments

[twitter.com/cpjobling]

Thanks for the link Jane. I like the idea of a group curated twitter magazine. But I also like the way that paper.li makes sense out of a day's tweets without my active intervention. Much more productive than following twitter streams in real time. If only each day's papers were archived!

[philipbradley]

Yes, I agree - far too much work required. You might also want to check out the Twitter Times at http://twittertim.es/ and if you've got access to an iPad, the app that blows all of these out of the water is Flipboard at http://www.flipboard.com/

[Jane Hart]

I agree that it does require some intervention, well if you call adding a hashtag to your tweet an intervention! What it does give you though, is control over what appears in your mag. With Paper.li, my Daily Twitter newspaper was made up of stories that I wouldn't necessarily have put in the paper! I do have to agree that Flipboard is a much more attractive, but then not everyone has an iPad - yet !

[Bernie Goldbach]

I really like the serendipity of Paper.li. I have neither the time nor inclination to drive down and read the flow from 2800 people I follow but it's worth my time to flick through four pages of my daily Paper.li and notice links that people have cited.

[Jane Hart]

Bernie, you misunderstand. It's not a magazine derived from the tweets those whom you follow, but on the tweets you yourself generate. Don't you read the tweets from those you folloow anyway? If not try siftlinks.com to keep up to date with them

[Bernie Goldbach]

I get the MyTweetMag thing and like the paper.li option as well. There's quite a lot of blowback against auto-tweeting from Paper.li but I really enjoy the daily editions I see emerging in my mid-afternoon tweetstreem.

[Paul Simbeck-Hampson]

Thanks Jane for the siftlinks.com link... that could be very useful :-)