Squeejee Launches Floxee, Platform for Custom Twitter Directories
June 10, 2009
** again, in case you didn’t remember… I’m a developer at Squeejee and therefore am intimately tied to this project.
So, what the heck is this Floxee thing anyway?
Floxee is a platform to bring your Twitter flock together. To boil it way down, Floxee is essentially groups for Twitter; get a bunch of Twitter users and aggregate them and their tweets in one location.
Of course we offer a bunch of features to go along with that, including:
- an archived and searchable tweetstream
- detailed tweetstream and stats page for each flocker
- we pull in data from Follow Cost and TwitterCounter
- ability to follow the person directly from their page
- stats for your flock including most followed/conversational/political/active
- community backchannel
Some neat features in the pipeline include the ability to vote up tweets in the tweetstream, css customizations and content management for certain portions of a site.
Our goal with Floxee is to make it incredibly easy for anyone to create a directory of Twitter users with all these features. Of course, there are some very interesting potential applications, especially around business use and branding/marketing. Zappos is well known for encouraging employees to use Twitter and aggregating it all, along with official company accounts, on their website at twitter.zappos.com. Floxee puts the ability to create the same strong sense of community and company branding in the hands of any business or organization with just a few clicks.
Currently, Floxee is in private beta. If you would like to participate please visit http://floxee.com and complete the signup form at the bottom of the page. We anticipate moving out of the beta period soon and rolling out a variety of paid accounts that should suit a wide variety of users.
Floxee is being used to power (amongst other sites):
