Welcome to NewsRivr!
NewsRivr is a innovative way of reading your tweets in a 'River of News' and was invented by Dave Winer (1)
We try to give you our heart and soul implementation of this concept.
NewsRivr pulls in the relevant text and images from the page where the tweets links to, and displays them in the timeline. In that way a River of News tabs into the brain's excellent scanning capabilities. It allows you scan headlines and images for relevant information and immediately read them inline. This is a huge timesaver compared to the read, click on a link, wait and read again method of the normal timeline.
From the normal timeline:
To an enriched timeline:
Besides that feature, it's just another feature complete twitter client with tweet, reply, retweet, favorites and list implementations of the api.
There is also a mobile version which get loaded automatically on an iPad or iPhone.
We hope you like enjoy the product and any feedback is higly appreciated!
To start just click the button below and authorize us to access your tweets, at every time you can stop this.
Enjoy!
Erik de Jonge
@NewsRivr
1. Dave Winer