Newspapers may be going the way of the dinosaurs with the growing footprint of digital media. But there’s something to be said about old familiarity. Our reading habits might be changing, but the residues of the old still remain. Does this explain why there are so many only apps which have customized reading views based on the style of newspapers columns? That is most definite. But one thing a newspaper is not, and that is real-time. That honor belongs to Twitter most of all. The Tweeted Times is a convenient marriage of both worlds, and in my opinion it also strives to give us the best of both worlds. We covered it briefly before and it is certainly not the only one we have cast our eyes upon. Flipboard is definitely the most popular one and there’s no arguing with that. But though it is great for devouring online content, it is platform-limited to iOS and Android. And that’s where personalized social magazines (or newspapers) are trying to carve the niche. A Content Curator In The Guise Of A Personalized Newspaper The Tweeted Times is at its most basic a content curator. But unlike other content curators, it is exclusively focused on Twitter. If you are a heavy Tweep or Twiterer, then you just might appreciate the de-cluttering swab the online application brings to your Twitter stream. But applications like The Tweeted Times aren’t magic wands in themselves. I like to think of them as supplemental tool. I use TweetDeck with Twitter and would keep it that way. A per
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