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I meant to get back to you after Beta1... The product is interesting, but wouldn't sway me from using a normal twitter client. For my use of Twitter I care more about who is saying what than what was said overall, if that makes sense.

You might want to refocus it as a trend or search type app. If you can out trend twitter trends by picking up on context and not just tags, I think you'd really have something.

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Crad, thanks for your time. My goal isn't to replace twitter clients - but to offer a place one checks from time to time to get caught-up and possibly discover interesting tweets which were simply lost in the noise.

BTW, do you rely on the use of "lists" to keep up with "who is saying what"? Or do you simple resign that to a serendipitous event? I think this is what most people do. Another problem I'm trying to solve...

I find this "experiment" interesting because doing it well has widespread application and benefits.

I mainly use lists to export the people I follow into carefully packaged categories. I usually just tune in and tune out to the stream and miss vast amounts of tweets.

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