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New Web-based Twitter Client Brings Facebook-like Experience to Twitter
Phoenix, AZ November 23, 2009 – Brinkster, a web hosting company, launched br.st (burst) a web-based Twitter client (at http://br.st), providing a rich experience similar to Facebook. Br.st offers features such as: “as you type” URL shortening, text shortening, expanding conversations, sharing of images and files, inline previews of images and videos, and advanced statistics. “We are excited to debut a Twitter client that truly changes the way you experience Twitter,” said Jared Stauffer, CEO of Brinkster.
By showing users previews of shared images, videos and links, and expanding conversations (via @replies) br.st provides a rich Twitter experience that users have long been requesting. “One thing that makes Twitter difficult to use is the need to click to another website to see what your friends are sharing. With br.st you can see what your friends are sharing right in your timeline,” adds Stauffer. Br.st displays previews of images shared on br.st along with Twitpic, yFrog, Pic.im, Pikchur, Tweetphoto, Pic.gd, Twitgoo, and Picktor. Video uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, TwitVid, Vidly, Yahoo and Google are also automatically displayed.
Real conversations are now possible on Twitter with the “open conversation” button at br.st. By expanding the conversation users can view what other users were replying to and all previous tweets that were part of the conversation. Users can also expand links from over 130 URL shorteners, taking the guess work out of what lies beneath the commonly used shortened URLs.
The other side of the experience is how easy it is to tweet and share links, images and files on Twitter with br.st. The box users type their tweet into has been enhanced to automatically shorten links that get typed or copy-and-pasted in. When a user adds an image or a file, a short link for the item is created and placed within the tweet. Another feature that is unique to br.st is the Text Shortener. Often when composing a tweet, users have a hard time keeping it under 140 characters. At br.st you click a button and your tweet is shortened by changing your “for” to “4” and your “and” to “&” along with many other commonly used abbreviations.
Other advanced features br.st offers are the displaying of Geo Tags found in images, preview of Google Maps found in short links, comments on images and files uploaded, and advanced real-time statistics for br.st links, images, and files. Br.st also supports Twitter’s new Lists functionality.
Br.st is a service of Brinkster (www.brinkster.com, @brinkster), a 10 year veteran of the web hosting industry.
About Brinkster
Started in 1999, Brinkster is a web hosting company with customers in over 175 countries supporting over 60,000 domains. The company offers shared web hosting, dedicated servers and email hosting services from its own private top-tier datacenter in Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.brinkster.com
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Last week we launched br.st. We worked hard to make sure it was the best place to experience Twitter on the net. We did not get the press coverage we anticipated. So, to get the word out we decided instead of buying advertising we would do a giveaway contest and give the money in the form of prizes to our users.