About this project

• What is it: a Twitter widget that can be added to your website, blog, or Facebook profile


• Why build it: default widgets provided by Twitter are too limited


• How is it different: there are 5 key differences that make Tweet Blender unique:
  
  
  
  1. It supports multiple sources as inputs: @screennames, #hashtags, keyword searches, @twitter/lists
  
  
  2. It supports advanced filtering: exclude tweets with bad words, exclude certain users, show/hide replies, and much more
  
  
  3. It has a unique caching system that works around Twitter's API connection limits
  
  
  4. It does not require Flash
  
  
  5. It uses native administration tools of each platform to manage widget configuration
  
  
  
  

Tweet Blender (http://tweet-blender.com) is an open source widget that allows to mix twitter streams from different people, hashtags, search results, and Twitter lists into a single conversation.

There is currently a widgetbox.com version and a popular WordPress plugin.

A growing community is providing great feedback and people are submitting ideas for improvements and new features via Facebook fan page and GetSatisfaction support site.

After just 1 year in existence, the widget is currently installed on over 6000 sites and is shown to almost 1 million people every day.

This fund raising effort is focused on enhancing and improving the WordPress version of Tweet Blender.

New features planned:
- better support for user interface customization: colors, sizes, fonts, scrolling, etc.
- better control over archive: ability to remove individual tweets from the archive DB, pagination on the archive page, etc.

Why Kickstarter?

I want to make a great widget and keep it FREE. Most investors want a solid revenue model and a proof of the idea. While 6,000 users is a good enough proof, the revenue model is still TBD.

Rather than work out and test different revenue models, I want to focus all my time and attention on developing the best software that will have features that users really need.

Project location: San Francisco, CA

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