I got emailed today about a new Twitter site called Tweet Knot, a new Twitter site which makes it easy to set up communities via Twitter.

At first glance I was a little bemused about what Tweet Knot actually does but it’s actually fairly simple. First of all, you can sign in using your Twitter login details, which is a good time saver. Then you can decide whether to follow other knots or creating your own.

You are probably thinking : What is a Knot? Well, a Knot is pretty much a group or community who share a common interest. Anyone can create a Knot and anyone can follow other Knots.

So for example, say you wanted to create a knot about japanese gadgets. You would create a knot called ‘JapaneseGadgets’. You would then add the members of the group, which is basically the Twitterers you want to post updates from. So you would probably add several Twitter users as your members who post about gadgets from Japan. And anyone who wanted to see the tweets from these members can do so by viewing www.tweetknot.com/japanesegadgets.

Through the Tweet Knot home page you can tweet to your regular account or to your Knot group. The home page itself isn’t the best designed in my opinion and it generated a horizontal scrollbar for me too (on a 1152×864 resolution).

Tweet Knot is a nice idea and I can see how many people would find it useful. Though, I don’t know if it will prove to be popular, particularly because you can currently only use the site through the TweetKnot home page itself. Perhaps if the service is integrated into some other Twitter scripts it will prove to be more popular.

Link : Tweet Knot

Managing multiple Twitter accounts is a real pain through Twitter.com. There are some good desktop twitter scripts available which let you manage multiple accounts but I hadn’t come across a webpage that let me do this. That was until I found Splitweet.

Splitweet makes it incredibly easy to check and update mutliple accounts. Additionally, it lets you check the latest reference to your ‘Brands’, which kind of works in a similar way to Google Alerts and helps you see the latest reference to your brand, product, website or whatever (or even the film star you’re stalking!).

At the top of the page is your dashboard. All of your accounts are listed here and are color coded. You can post a tweet to one of your accounts or all of them, a great time saver.

The main dashboard shows you the latest replies to your accounts. You can choose to show the latest tweets from any of your accounts here. You just need to unmark the accounts you don’t want to see tweets from. Next to each tweet is a handy Retweet button too, something which everyone is waiting for Twitter to add!!

I found viewing the latest tweets from all accounts to be overwhelming though the color coding for each account does help a little. It also seems to refresh too much with multiple accounts selected which made Firefox load slightly slower for me (I had 6 accounts selected).

One of my favourite things about Splitweet is that the latest @replies to your account are shown down the right hand side of the page. This is exactly what I am looking for as I essentially tweet from one account but check the latest @replies for the rest.

It would be better though if it allowed me to select which accounts I wanted to check for @replies for too (i.e. seperately from my main dashboard). This would allow me to see the latest tweets on the main page for my personal account but still see the latest @replies down the sidebar for all my accounts.

I did notice that the sidebar was sometimes very slow in refreshing though. As it stands, there is still a reply which is shown on my replies page but isn’t being shown in the sidebar.

The sidebar also shows the latest references to your brands. This is useful too but unfortunately they place the latest references at the top of the sidebar, above the @replies, and you cannot move them around. Which is a shame as I believe @replies are more relevant to most people.

Overview

Splitweet is perfect for anyone who has more than one Twitter account, and is worth checking out if you only have the one account too as it displays your @replies and brand mentions down the right side of the page so you don’t need to manually check it.

It’s not perfect but it’s incrdibly useful and easy to use. I have been tweeting through the Twitter home page for as long as I can remember but I have switched to Splitweet as it makes checking my other Twitter accounts a breeze.

I recommend checking out

Link : Splitweet