Twaller – Find Local City Tips On Twitter
When the developers of Twaller contacted me to help provide recommendations for their website on how they could tweak and improve it, I decided to give it a whirl and put it through the pace. Right away I was impressed with the idea of the platform and think it has tons of potential.
Twaller is simply a travel guide for anyone looking to visit any city, you can drill down to the city you are interested in and find out what people are talking about for that city.
As seen above, you are presented with a wide variety of categories like “Places to Eat”, “Things to See”, “For Kids”, “Shopping”, “Entertainment”, “Nightlife” and more. You can see what people are saying in each of the categories to find out what you may want to try for dinner, or what bars or clubs you might want to visit while traveling.
The site has an enormous potential because of its ability to pull in real time updates from people who are talking from those cities on twitter, this would make it more valuable than more static sites like city search and others where they rely on postings, reviews and such. In fact, I would call Twaller the Twitter equivalent to City Search or similar type services.
Amazingly, there isn’t an adsense ad on the site at all, which is surprising the creators deserve to stick an ad here and there and make some ad revenue for the effort they are putting into the site. The extremely simple white background makes everything easy to read but almost makes the site look a little unfinished.
No doubt about it, Twaller has potential as being a good resource to go find out where to eat in your city or maybe find out what people are talking about in the local music scene. I check out both Phoenix, San Diego, and even Tokyo, though it would seem the tweets are just pulling people talking about “Tokyo” and in some of the indexes don’t actually show anything to do with whats local to the actual city in Japan. One other thing is that the site only shows the most recent four tweets in the past twenty four hours for each category. Would be nice if you can drill further down and see more tweets in the category, but there doesn’t appear to be a way.
Still the site is worth checking out if you are curious.
-Dragon Blogger
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