TweetChat is a unique approach to hashtag searches and conversations. After using oAuth to log in, you search for or select a hashtag to view the current tweets around. This puts you into a channel with only information about that hashtag showing up.
This is important to pull yourself out of the river of Twitter and into a nice bubbling brook (for lack of a better water example). You can pause (called SmartPausing in their system) the conversation and even block spammers from showing. This allows you to focus and communicate through tweets with everyone around the topic.
After logging in, I saw my Twitter background overlayed with their UI asking what hashtag to search for. I chose to check in on one of two conferences going on while writing this. @Corvida is at Blogalicious09 and UKLUG just finished. I was able to reply, retweet, favorite and see user controls for each result. I could also change rooms in the upper right to a new hashtag.
This site is incredibly useful for working with everything around an event. The upper (slighty obscure) settings allowed me to pause, refresh speed, font controls, share link and more user controls.
Whoa, last second item. If there is too much traffic you could slow it down or pause, but a great user control feature I found was the ability to feature users. I didn’t find a description of this feature, but that is a great!! Toggling the font made it smaller to show more lines. Refresh speed allowed every 5 to 60 seconds.
I wish they could bring in picture popup and showing where links go, but otherwise I liked the site.
Filed under: Add-on Tools, Search Tools, conversation, hashtags, search
