 What is favebytesIn this first launch version, favebytes produces an OPML file containing feeds of your friends' favorite tweets, that you can import into your preferred feed reader.
This will keep you automatically updated with the best Tweets your friends liked.
There are many ways in which we can improve the service - let us know what you think on our community support page!
Why Twitter favorites?When we first produced our own OPMLs, we could only guess this would be worthwile.People use the Favorite feature for their own benefit, often to bookmark tweets they liked (for whatever reason) or want to save for later - for example, when they lead to interesting content they don't have time to read. A smaller fraction of users also consider Favorites a way "to remember and share great tweets". And great tweets those are! Try it out for yourself and share your thoughts. What do to with the OPML file?OPML is a file format commonly used to list feeds (for example, blogrolls).The OPML file we generate can be easily imported into your favorite RSS reader. If you don't have one, we recommend you give a shot at social feed agregators, like Google Reader. How to import the OPML file into a feed readerFavebytes outputs an OPML file meant to be imported into your RSS feed reader. Here are some links to instructions on how to do this using some popular feed reader services and applications.
Most feed readers - probably all, in fact - can import OPML files. If instructions for your favorite reader are missing, you can share those instructions or ask for help by commenting on this page or on our community support page on GetSatisfaction.
*About the Twitter lazyness commentIf you google for the "Favorites" feature on blog.twitter.com, you'll see that there are only a couple of mentions dating back to 2006.The point is Twitter has had this feature virtually from the beginning but hasn't done anything about it. And since Twitter doesn't do anything about it, but gives us the means to, well... here we are. But this is not the perfect situation. Favorites are too cool to be outsourced, as is search, as are @replies, as are hashtags, as are RT's... Twitter will eventually suck them all in. They're just taking their time, and while they're at it, people are doing the exploring for them. Favorites versus RTsReTweets (RTs) are great. They enable the spreading of information across social graphs in real-time. They don't necessary build up a conversation, they alert and spread.Retweeting is sharing, but favoriting is remembering. You'll find that the sharing of tweets people want to remember and revisit is amazingly powerful. |
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