Create A Twitter Newspaper
Thursday, 24 February 2011
In case you've been living under a rock–and a big one at that–this past year, you have probably heard of paper.li. If not then read on. Tweeps, or people on Twitter, are slowly recognizing the value of reaching out to a wider audience with the help of various Twitter apps or tools. The main product of paper.li, a newspaper-like webpage replete with tweets, does that and more. According to information from the official paper.li homepage, the service organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-read, newspaper-style format.
What's so great about that? First, the paper.li page you create gets posted as a tweet and tags the sources (using either the @ tag or the hashtag) which may score you brownie points on both the source and the consumer end. Sources get tagged as authorities and consumers get the news–in this case, tweets–they want. Second, the paper.li page tracks the number of viewers and subscribers, which gives you a rough idea of how many actually care about your tweets and Tweeps that you follow. The third and probably most important function of paper.li is that it serves as a great way to discover content that matters to you.