Off to a Flying Start

It's only 24 hours since we published the new Silverlight version of TweetPivot. This made it available to anyone running a 'modern' browser. In just that short space of time we've had over 150 new collections built and almost 500 unique visitors.

So far the site has coped admirably with the increased load and we haven't had any reports of collection requests failing - everything's been built.

We've also been receiving lots of great, positive comments and exposure from users. Special thanks to Pete Brown who posted a great tweet to his 2000 followers.

By far the biggest negative comment we have received has related to the speed of generating new collections. It takes about 3 minutes to generate a collection of 1000 twitter users. We know that this is far too long and are working hard to resolve it. Technically:

"Every profile image of every user in the collection needs to be converted to a Deep Zoom Image. Once all these have been done they are then all combined into a Deep Zoom Collection. The first part of this process is very intensive and, unfortunately, doesn't seem to run well in a parallel environment. In fact, when utilising .Net 4's Parallel Task Library it actually doubles the conversion time! This process is currently responsible for over 75% of the overall time it takes to create and deliver a new collection."

Finally, a huge "thank you" to everyone who has shown interest in TweetPivot. We have a mountain of amazing new features that we can now start adding to the application. Follow us and we can keep you informed.

TweetPivot gets Silverlight Upgrade

Well, it's finally here - the Silverlight Pivot plugin to replace the "old" Pivot Browser.

We have worked hard to quickly upgrade our existing website to incorporate this newly available control and we're thrilled that we have this working within 2 days of the Microsoft release!

So, what does this mean for you?

Firstly, you can now experience the goodness of TweetPivot on any modern browser that supports Silverlight. Secondly, it opens our product development roadmap - there're going to be a lot of new features coming very soon!

Finally, please remember that this is our initial offering and it needs a little polish and TLC. We're working on the rough edges right now, but we wanted to get you something to play with as soon as we could.

Click on the 'try it' button on the left or go to http://tweetpivot.com to start.

Introduction to Tweet Pivot

Tweet Pivot offers a brand new way to view your 'twitterverse'. By combining Twitter Data, 3rd-Party Twitter Analysis and Microsoft Live Labs Pivot technology you can now discover insights into your Twitter presence that were previously not possible.

Over the coming weeks and months we will be working hard to improve Tweet Pivot in a number of ways...

More Analysis

We current only utilise data from one 3rd-party source: Klout. We have another 6 twitter analysis sites that we will be aggregating into our offering. All these products already offer amazing stand-alone information; we see combining them will create a whole product that's even greater than the sum of its parts.

Pivot Silverlight Plugin

This should be available from Microsoft Live Labs by the end of this month and we will be using it immediately. What this means for our users is that they'll be able to use Tweet Pivot from every modern browser / operating system combination.

Video Use Case Studies

Whilst it is very quick and easy to understand the mechanics of what Tweet Pivot can do you may not be able to immediately see the reasons why you might use it. Fortunately, we can. We will be regularly releasing videos via our YouTube channel investigating case studies focusing on different vertical markets.

Premium Trial

We are in the midst of developing our Premium offering for businesses. We know that there is a market for this and are hugely excited by the value that we can add to those engaged in commerce and marketing on Twitter. To get this up and running we will be starting a 'Closed Beta' trial in the next couple of months. Details on how to sign up to this will be made available nearer the time.

Now watch the video...

We think the best way to explain what Tweet Pivot's all about is to simple show you. So, here's a very short video introduction; and, once you've watched it, why not go and try it?