I’ve been a proponent of TweetDeck to track people I’m following on Twitter. That all changed today. Zac and friends from “team awesome” introduced me to PeopleBrowsr. PeopleBrowsr is TweetDeck on steroids. (Suggesting Major League Baseball players probably like it as well.)
Here are some of the advantages of using PeopleBrowsr over TweetDeck:
- It’s a browser-based solution, so you can set up groups on one computer and follow the same groups on any other computer connected to the Web.
- You can track people you’re following on other social networks including Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.
- You can create public or private groups and then tag people to add them to those groups.
- It incorporates profile data like follower/following stats and location into each update.
- It streamlines the process of replies, direct messages and retweets from each update.
I’m loving it. It was easy to set up my new groups using the group manager. Much easier than TweetDeck. I think I’m hooked on PeopleBrowsr.
Have you tried it out? What’s your reaction? Any features you’re hoping will be added to the beta version?
I took a quick look at it when you first tweeted about it earlier today. I think I’ll like it! I’ll probably set it all up tonight. From my initial overview of it it looked pretty “awesome”!
Pretty surprised that they aren’t supporting IE7. Really? Not that I have anything against Firefox. But just saying they won’t support IE7 is pretty arrogant IMO. They’ll want to fix that.
I do love Tweetdeck because it’s an Air app… I like the fact that I can keep it minimized and I still get alerts for new tweets, replies, etc. Would you still get that with PeopleBrowsr?
I’m with Brad, and as a web developer I’m actually running IE8 rc1, and they told me no IE6 or 7… it did feel a little arrogant…
I mean you are talking about not supporting the main browser for an OS…
Actually I never got past that point… I think I saw the home page in FF3 and decided that I wasn’t interested..
It’s funny.. I’m a huge Ajax guy, but for some things I can’t stand it being a browser app.. this is one of those things..
It’s not too suprising though… since you and I are sort of technologically incompatible in some ways (I run Windows 7 beta on a bunch of machines here including my mac… )
but it looks so.. ugly…
Thanks for this great post,
The PeopleBrowsr team was delighted to read it.
And it comes at the perfect time.
I was just drafting a list of the differences between the two tools.
Would love to link to you on our blog.
Keep up the great feedback :)
Thanks for your support!
Cheers,
Priscilla
I don’t know if I could be any madder at you right now. Earlier this week I set up Tweetdeck, (ON YOUR RECOMMONDATION) and spent the week learning it, and now this…
I can’t keep up with you. I’m thinking about skipping your last few chapters now…..
I need a hug.
Seemed really s l o w to me.
The interface is confusing, response is a little slow and for now I prefer a non-browser based solution. I think they’ve really got to streamline it if it’s going to take off.
I can’t figure out how to make “tinyURLs” in PeopleBrowsr like in Tweetdeck… I don’t like that…
Thanks Tony. I just got hooked to TD and now you are trying to get me to try PB.
–Terrace Crawford
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Looks like a great concept, but a lot of the functionality is broken (throwing server-side PHP errors and exposing paths along the way; try adding a myspace account for example).
I’ll wait until they get all the kinks worked out of it, and clean up the VERY confusing and unintuitive UI first.
I had just been thinking about giving TweetDeck a try when I read this. So I logged on to PeopleBrowsr, and was completely confused and overwhelmed by the home page. It didn’t look intuitive at all.
I probably won’t bother going back to figure it out…
I’ve been using PeopleBrowser for a while, and it’s getting better `n better. Wouldn’t want to change, especially because I can just gear it up on any computer I happen to be near to…
As for not using IE7: I’m all for it. I like a startup that decides to not go with the monopolist for a change.
I have been using tweetdeck for a few weeks after your suggestion…. way way easier to understand and intuitive then PeopleBrowser … I’ll see what you suggest to use next month and check that out…. but for now tweetdeck is where its at !
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I discovered People Browsr through @wmmarc Looks cool so far. I dig that its web based. The screen is a bit cluttered but the are in alpha so what can you expect. Will let you know what i think after I’ve played with it for a while.
I’m loving it; I struggled with TD before – slowed down my system to a crawl. Thank you for sharing!