TwitPrint let’s you select tweets to present in a printer friendly format based any of the following:
- Print all tweets of my and my friends
- Print just the tweets of a selected user that I follow
- Tweets which contain the keyword “X”
- Get the X most recent or oldest tweets
- Include Twitpic.com images
- Include user images (a.k.a. avatars)
You then click on “Get Tweets” to filter and fetch the tweets. Clicking on “Show Tweets” displays the data formatted ready for printing.
Remember, you can always print to a PDF file or Microsoft OneNote if you want to save paper. Also, if you hit “cancel” when the print dialog appears you can use the browser’s “Print Preview” option to get an idea of the output.
So, what might you actually do with TwitPrint?
Well, that’s really up to you. But some ideas might be:
- Print the tweets of your favourite celebrity along with their Twitpics so you can read them all at once in an easy to view list.
- Print all the tweets based on a hash tag (e.g. #followfriday or other trending topic) for posterity (you can currently only fetch tweets of those you follow, and your own of course).
- Print a record of your own tweets with your Twitpic images inserted as a permanent record or journal.
- Print dated tweets as a legal record of what was said and when.
We think that combining Twitter and printing is an interesting juxtapositioning of new media and traditional media and we hope that you find it interesting too.
There are many features we are considering adding to TwitPrint but that’s for another post. What are you printing with TwitPrint and why?
