TweetKnot's Blog

Tweetknot’s Facebook App is Live!!

tweetknot — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:34:53 +0000

Now even the facebook users can join the tweet knots. Today, tweetknot has launched facebook application, which allows users to post on the knots from facebook. Users can also like their their twitter account with facebook account to retain their currently existing knots.

Try out http://apps.facebook.com/tweetknot and let us know the feedback.

Happy Knotting

Team Tweetknot

Knot Can Now Follow Twitter HashTags

tweetknot — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:45:33 +0000

We had a feature wherein Knot can follow any twitter user or Rss Feed as specified by the knot owner. Now we have added an additional functionality wherein Knot owner can specify the Knot to follow any Twitter hashtag.

How it Works:

Knot Owner can add an Twitter Hashtag to follow from Knot Setting Page [http://www.tweetknot.com//settings]
Our scripts reads the messages posted on Twitter with the specified hashtags and them to the Knot
It will take maximum of 2 minutes for message posted on twitter to appear on TweetKnot
Only messages posted by public members on twitter will be added to Tweetknot

Feel free to mail us at support@tweetknot.com in case of any queries/issues

Team TweetKnot

Knot can now follow RSS feed

tweetknot — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:23:10 +0000

We had a feature wherein Knot can follow any twitter user as specified by the knot owner. Now we have added an additional functionality wherein Knot owner can specify the Knot to follow any RSS feed.

How it Works:

Knot Owner can add an RSS feed to follow from Knot Setting Page [http://www.tweetknot.com//settings]
Our RSSman [http://tweetknot.com/user/rssman] frequently reads the rss feeds and posts the new messages to the Knot, thereby making them available to all knot members.

Feel free to mail us at support@tweetknot.com in case of any queries/issues

Team TweetKnot

TweetKnot’s Ranking System

tweetknot — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:47:05 +0000

Today, Tweetknot has launched its ranking system where users and knots are ranked based on different criteria as mentioned below.

The Knot is scored based on

Number of members in the Knots
Number of messages posted by users manually in the knot
Number of page views for the knot

Similarly a TweetKnot User is ranked based on

Popularity of Knots created by the user
Number of messages posted by the user in various knots

The scores and the ranks gets updated hourly. So to improve the ranks, you need to be consistently keep using tweetknot. Keep Knotting Guys & Gals.

How are people using Knots?

tweetknot — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:50:27 +0000

Guys & Gals, first of all we would like like to thank you for the support and the positive feedback you have given for TweetKnot. We have crossed 100 Knots last week. Its very exciting that we crossed this milestone in such a short time. So we want to let you know what kind of Knots people are creating in general on TweetKnot.

Knots for College/University Alumni
Private Knots for Company Employees
Knots for people of paticular region
Knots for General Gossip

This is just a start and we are sure our users will come up with more innovative wasy to use the Knots.

Happy Knotting

Team TweetKnot

TweetKnot is Live!!

tweetknot — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:48:45 +0000

We are excited to launch TweetKnot.
TweetKnot: Tying People Together is an app built over twitter. It allows users to create the communities (public/private) over twitter.

I would like you to explore the site about the entire service. But to give brief intro this is what we think about our service:
* TweetKnot provides platform to share the short messages (140 chars) across people via Knots.
* Every member of Knot can send the message to all other members.
* TweetKnot provides support to create private Knots.
* Owner of Knot can specify sources (twitter users) whose messages appear in the Knot automatically.
* No registration required, you can sign-in via twitter. Just allow TweetKnot to access twitter, its absolutely safe.

About Us:
TweetKnot is a Bangalore, India based privately funded startup. TweetKnot is started by experienced IIT Bombay alumni.

TweetKnot FAQs:
Q: What is Knot?
A: Knot is Community of Twitter users who share common interest and use this as platform to share the short messages across them. Every member of community can send the message to all other members of the community.

Q: How can one Join Tweet Knot?
A: Any person with twitter account can join the Knot. Twitter user can join any public Knot. Community owner has to approve you in case of private Knot.

Q: How can one Create Tweet Knot?
A: Any person with twitter account can create the Tweet Knot. He can specify whether he wants the Knot to be private or public. Only members approved by creator can join in private Knot.

Q: What does Knot Following member mean?
A: The creator of Knot can make group follow any of Twitter member. For example user Antony can create a Knot called TechnologyNews and specify it to Follow http://twitter.com/TechCruch, which means all messages posted by Techcrunch on twitter will be automatically posted to TechnologyNews Knot.

Q: How can one send a message to Tweet Knot?
A: Every Tweeknot user can send message to Knot in multiple ways
* Visit the Knot page http://tweetknot.com/communityname and post the message there
* You can post message from Twitter page by entering D TweetKnot communityname message
* If you have your mobile number associated to your twitter account, then you c an send D TweetKnot communityname message from your mobile phone.

Q: How can one receive a message to Tweet Knot?
A: Currently user can read the messages on tweetknot.com. TweetKnot provides a cool UI wherein users can read/reply/post messages on both Twitter & Knot by just a button click. We will soon plan to provide a way wherein Users can get messages on their mobile.

For any further queries, please mail us: press@tweetknot.com

My First Public Appearance

tweetknot — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:27:22 +0000

I am a big cricket fan and I couldn’t resist watching the exciting IPL (Indian Premier League) Final between Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers and as a result I got little late. But the exciting news is I am almost ready to get open to public. Many of you may be eager to know how I look like and below is the first photo (my first public appearance)

Eagerly waiting to see the World

tweetknot — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:17:42 +0000

Welcome to TweetKnot‘s Official Blog. TweetKnot is a Bangalore based startup. We are working hard to release TweetKnot at the earliest. We are very close and will soon be releasing it to friends and family before going to wider audience. If you want to be among the first few users of TweetKnot, feel free to mail us at support AT tweetknot DOT com. Follow me on Twitter @tweetknot