Tweetree (http://tweetree.com/) isn’t a full-featured Twitter replacement, but that’s okay because it offers a few features that you won’t find anywhere else.To see what I mean, log in using your Twitter username and password to get to your Tweetree home page, as shown in figure 8.15. You get the usual update text box at the top, followed by your friends’ tweetstream. Each tweet has icons that enable you to reply, retweet, or mark the update as a favorite.
Here’s where you notice the first of Tweetree’s unique features (see the first tweet shown in figure 8.15). If a tweet includes a shortened URL, Tweetree automatically ferrets out the original Web address and displays the page title (as a link) and the domain where the page resides. Why bother? Two reasons:
A: Many tweets introduce a shortened URL with only the barest of barebones descriptions: “Check this out doodz!!” or “This is funny LOL”. Clicking the link more often than not wastes a few minutes of your precious time. By expanding the address automatically and showing the page title, you get a much better sense of what you’re in for on the other side of the link.
B: There’s an inherent danger in a shortened URL because you simply don’t know for sure where it will take you. Malicious users routinely use shortened URLs because they effectively hide the destination domain. With Tweetree, you not only see the domain, but you can hover your mouse over the link to see the full page
address in the browser’s status bar.
Either way, there’s no more crossing of the fingers when you click a shortened URL.I should mention, too, that Tweetree also looks for links to images on sites such as TwitPic and to videos on sites such as ffwd, and it automatically displays the media within the tweet, so you don’t have to click yet another link to see yet another baby picture.
Finally, we come to the “tree” part of the Tweetree name. Tweetree examines your friends’ tweets, and if it finds a reply, it grabs the original tweets and displays them using a tree-like format, as shown in figure 8.16. It’s a nice way to listen in on a Twitter conversation.
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