Twitter integrated into mainstream media site
Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/21/2008 9:55 PM 
Categories: social networking, Cool Web Tools, Social Media
Categories: social networking, Cool Web Tools, Social Media
On Sunday, I discussed how Twitter feeds (or variations) will be aggregated into channels by mainstream media. Yesterday's release that Summize, a Twitter search engine has partnered with Huffington Post to display Twitters by tagged subject is an indication to this effect.
Here's how this works... each article in the Huffington Post has tags.
Clicking on the tag brings up more articles on the subject, including specific Twitter feeds related to the tag.
Unfortunately, Twitters related to real estate don't seem relevant, principally because the tag is too generic.
This is a good try to attribute relevancy to Twitter feeds, but will work better with more detailed "Long Tail" tags, such as "Sacramento foreclosures".
Here's an idea Huffington Post might consider for general tags to make them relevant - create individual Twitter feeds, such as @huffpo_obama that Twitter links to their Obama articles. Then, followers to @huffpo_obama (and there would be many) can Twitter comment about Obama and the article.
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