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