We are excited to launch a new, easier way to curate Twitter Favorites and Retweets.
Our new interface streamlines real-time curation by focusing on Twitter retweets and Twitter favorites. We present users these statuses in an easy-to-read list and provide a powerful dropdown menu to quickly send statuses to Keepstream collections.
The UI is designed to be quick. Adding items to a collection feels just like applying labels in Gmail or adding users to a list in Twitter. We want to empower Keepstream users to create many collections of their social media content, from personal conversations to important articles organized by topic.
Bottomline? If you want to curate that tweet, just favorite it or retweet it. Then later, come to Keepstream and quickly organize them into collections.
How to use the new interface
When you log in to Keepstream, visit your personal profile to see tabs for “Favorites” and “Retweets”. These pages display your Tweets with a button that shows a dropdown when pressed. The dropdown includes a list of your current collections. Start typing, and the list will automatically filter itself.
Have a Tweet that doesn’t fit an existing collection? Click “create new collection” to quickly make a collection.
"Organizer" Dropdown
Why are we experimenting with this new UI?
We wanted to build a way to curate that anyone can use – no matter how tech-savvy they are and no matter what Twitter client they are using. Every popular Twitter client supports favorites and native retweets – so that means they can all support curation! It’s curation for the masses.
We believe that the current interfaces and plugins for real-time curation products are very heavily focused on the power Twitter user. That is, these interfaces provide inputs from every Twitter feature imaginable, but can be unwieldy for the mainstream social media user.
This new feature aims to be “Curation 101″, based on actions you already do. Rather than change your workflow, just keep on favoriting and retweeting the best tweets. Keepstream will help you organize them.
Next steps
Keep checking on Keepstream as we continue to expand this new functionality and develop better ways to discover organized content. What do you think of the new feature? Please give us your feedback here or at our Get Satisfaction!
