Monday, April 30, 2012

RoundTeam: Objective


Have you ever faced a situation that you'd like to share tweet with particular group of people, but don't want to follow each of them directly on Twitter?

What if you'd like to target your tweets to different Teams, not individual team members? Team is every group of people which has common interest(s), such as classmates, football team, neighbors, ornithologists of New York area, or any other.

Team members may come and leave, however Team stays the same. This is another reason to keep connection to the Team in general, not to each individual team member.

RoundTeam is free autoretweet service, a Twitter application, which invents a concept of a Twitter Team. Team is just an account from Twitter perspective, but it represents an interest or group of interests, not an individual person.

So, there are four simple steps to leverage Twitter in a new way:
  1. Choose existing or create new Twitter account to represent your team.
  2. Add this account to RoundTeam -- free online retweet service
  3. Specify what and from whom to retweet. It can be #hashtag, @mention, or just a keyword.
  4. Invite people to follow your Team on Twitter
Now every time there is new tweet on Twitter which matches the criteria of the Team, this tweet will be automatically retweeted. Thus all Team followers will see this tweet in their Twitter timeline (or even get an SMS on their cell phone).

Some of the benefits of this approach:
  • No need to follow each team member directly. Individuals may join and leave, commmunity tweets are still delivered to those who are interested.
  • This is better than Twitter "saved search" because saved search cannot send SMS to your mobile device once new tweet is available. Also saved search is something that each team member have to configure on their accounts.
RoundTeam mission is to create communities on Twitter. Such an islands of precisely targeted tweets in the world ocean of Twitter data.

Visit RoundTeam at http://roundteam.co

3 comments:

  1. So, if I understand this correctly the team account will only retweet tweets of its followers. It would be useful if that requirements was made optional, i.e. it could be useful sometimes to have any tweet with a certain hashtag be retweeted by the team account, not just those tweeted by its members. Would you be able add this as an option in the roundteam account?

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    1. Hi Andreas,

      Thank you for valuable suggestion. Actually we were already working on implementing it.

      Please follow updates from @RoundTeam on Twitter.

      Best regards,
      Oleg

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    2. Hi Andreas,

      This feature, as well as many others, is already there at RoundTeam!
      You're very welcome to give it a try and provide your feedback.

      Best,
      Oleg

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