Do you know what @Digeratii, @mosspuppet and @jackamick have in common? They share the highest ratio of favorited tweets in my account. I don’t know what’s wrong with those guys, I seriously can’t help but hitting the fave button on their tweets. Follow them on Twitter and you’ll find out why but remember - you heard it here first.
Anyway, it’s not like everyone on Twitter follows @Digeratii (though he once confessed he plans to surpass Ashton’s followers someday) and wants to hear about the adventures of his smart dog Kona; people seem to use the favorite feature as a way to save links for later. And I must admit it, I do it as well sometimes. Rather than emailing the tweet to myself, saving it to Read It Later or just retweet it, I can fave it (because I like it anyway) and open it later. Works good, it’s fast and it gives a little more information about you and the stuff you like.
Now, I think the Laterstars guys have been as smart as Kona in developing their web application. Laterstars is a self-updating container and organizer for the tweets you’ve faved, packed in a sexy and usable UI.
It’s in the closed beta stage, but we got 25 invites for you. Keep on reading.
Laterstars, which will hopefully go public very soon, is a web app that aims at organizing all your faved tweets in one place, offering some pretty cool options to manage the links within those tweets. Indeed, laterstars only works with tweets that contain http:// links - it’s not like it retrieves every tweet from your account. Once you’ll sign up for an account and activate it, you’ll need to authorize the application with Twitter’s OAuth, or it won’t work otherwise. Now, everytime you’ll favorite a tweet that has a link in it, Laterstars will process it and put it in your inbox, assuming you hit the fave button because you wanted to save it for later.
Tweets are presented in a vertical list, arranged by the date you added them. By default, each item contains the title of the webpage included in the tweet, but clicking on the avatar reveals the original tweet from the author as well as the possibility to retweet it directly from the web app. You can “love”, label, mark as read, archive and delete items. Pictures and videos are previewed inline with thumbnails and fancyboxes. You can search for a specific tweet or even bring up the labels menu and filter your search. It’s phenomenal.
I can’t tell much more about Laterstars because, as I said, the app is still in beta and the developers are looking to seriously upgrade and refine the platform before the public release. As you can see the UI is very nice, and I can confirm there are some nice animations too. As far as I can tell now, this is just perfect to be converted with Fluid and accessed straight from the dock. I think @Digeratii would approve this.
We have 25 invitations up for grabs! Just use the code MACSTORIES to sign up. First-come, first-served.