Working on UAETweets opened our eyes to the interesting possibility of creating a service that allows anyone to create their own lenses using whatever criteria they choose… later on and after we launched UAETweets we got confirmation of this possibility through a number of email requests from people interested in leasing/buying the code behind UAETweets.
Enter twtlens, a service still in Alpha that allows you to create your own twitter lens on any group of users “community” that have something in common (location, work, interests, passions, etc.), to provide a quick view of the community pulse, and what’s on their minds at any given moment.
In the Alpha release, created Lenses will have the following features:
- Allow customization of the lens theme with your own logo, color scheme and background image.
- Aggregate all tweets from the community.
- Make those tweets searchable.
- Extract trending topics (words and #hashtags).
- Extract popular links shared by the community.
- Extract latest links.
- Make search results and trends available as RSS feeds.
- Choose which widgets to have as part of the lens.
You can create your own lens for free here, we have limited testing slots open at this moment.
We’re just getting started with developing twtlens and will be adding new features on a weekly basis, but please do let us know what you think of it and in case you have any request or issue with the service.