If you have a Twitter account to go along with your blog, sooner or later you’ll get to the point where you can’t keep up with all your followers any more. TwitTangle offers one way to sort them out.

To get started, login with your Twitter credentials. The application will take you to your Twitter profile with the TwitTangle interface overlaid. Within a couple of minutes you will see a menu bar across the top of the page and avatars for all your friends.

The next step is to rate your friends. To do this, click on an avatar to bring up a window which shows the person’s profile, the friends you have in common, a slider where you can rate them on a scale from ‘just friends’ to ‘I love them’ and two boxes where you can see groups they are in and add tags. This is the time consuming part, but when you are done, navigate to the home tab to see how your timeline looks.

The idea is that you should see tweets from your favorite people first. While my timeline did look different, there were people in my favorites list who didn’t appear. It turned out that I needed to add them to a group in order to make TwitTangle work properly.

An interesting feature of TwitTangle is the availability of both groups and networks, providing a great way to filter the clutter. However, most of these have very few members, and now that Twitter has released lists, there’s little need for this feature.

Down the right side of the page, there are links to select your timeline view, seeing messages since the last visit, in the last two or eight hours or from the previous day. This can provide a quick way to catch  up on tweets and is one of the application’s more useful features.

Like many other Twitter web clients, TwitTangle offers multi-column view. There are drop down menus for your timeline, groups, networks, favorite groups, saved searches and messages, all of which give you options for columns to add.

Is TwitTangle worth using? It depends. If you want to benefit from prebuilt networks and groups for an easy way to navigate Twitter, then perhaps. If not, then some of TwitTangle’s features are better done by other Twitter web interfaces, such as Seesmic or Brizzly, to name just two.

This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.
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