I recently discovered Twitwall.com through following a link from @kimbeasley. Twitwall allows a cross between blogging and Twitter and allows you to write more than 140 characters.
You can also embed your videos and widgets, upload your photos and mp3’s to your post at Twitwall.
Twitwall is easy to set up with your Twitter user name and password and has a WYSIWYG interface though at the time of writing this article it has no spell check or tagging feature that you would find on blogging platforms.
Alternative ways to post more information to Twitter would be to syndicate your content from your blog, from platforms like FriendFeed, use tools like Twitpic, or syndicate your content applications such as Flickr, YouTube or many other sites that now allow you to link to your Twitter account.
Another alternative to Twitwall is Twitblogs.com
I’m not sure if I’ll use Twitwall, but why not make up your own mind? And thanks to Kim without whom I may not have come across Twitwall.
I can see that it has benefits for someone who wants to post more content than 140 characters but who do not blog – but as with all free hosted solutions, you will not have the archives should the service ever cease.
So if you are interested in creating real estate to reflect your personal brand online and share your passions, interests and expertise perhaps Twitwall is a good place to start?
In the meantime you might find the article from the Blog Herald with a more indepth look at Twitwall and an interview with Twitwall founder Michael E Carluen.
Here is a video of Twitwall in action from Richard Osterude @RichOsterude on Twitter.
January 8th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Hi Krishna,
Thank you for mentioning Twitblogs, it is always appreciated. If I may I would like to say a little more here in the comments.
To you and your followers, I thought I would add that we have a couple other great features in Twitblogs that gets rarely talked but distinguishes us quite significantly from Twitwall and they are an advanced AJAX interface to Twitter and Twitter Search. With these two tools you can tweet, re-tweet and even save searches all on our site.
We believe we are a great tool for newbies, mid-range and even power users with or without their own blog because of these extra features.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Krishna, thank you very much for writing about TwitWall. I appreciate you sharing the TwitWall idea to your readers.
I’d like your readers to think about the friends and family they know for a moment. How many of them blog? How many of they blog ‘professionally’? And how many of them may make a good blogger, but dont?
TwitWall clearly understands that there are significantly more people who are not blogging, than there are current WP, TypePad or Blogger bloggers. And a huge hurdle for those people for not blogging is the perceived effort it takes to set-up and generate traffic. That is in addition to creating content which is the only reason why they want to blog in the first place. By leveraging on Twitter, TwitWall simplified all that.
Many of TwitWall users enjoyed Twitter microblogging first, before they became TwitWall bloggers. To those users, TwitWall is their natural blogging progression.
Finally, I’d like to conclude by inviting your readers to read a TwitWall post I wrote on kids-friendly blogging:
http://twitwall.com/view/?what=010807
Yes, I am a proud dad of two grade-school TwitWall’ers. And no, they didn’t want to try Blogger, WP, or TypePad.
Again, many thanks Krishna.
Michael E. Carluen
Creator, TwitWall.com