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Twitter Aggregator SawHorse Gets Funded, Adds Two Sites

Written by Jolie O'Dell / April 29, 2009 5:52 PM / 5 Comments

Streaming themed tweets in such fascinating verticals as journalism, venture capital, and music, Twitter aggregator SawHorse has raised an undisclosed seed round to support its growing network of sites.

Its two newest sites are focused on pets and celebrities.

As we resign ourselves to the fact that the post-Oprah Twitter is undeniably mainstream, the SawHorse sites become an interesting way to parse through the different microcosms and communities that exist in the wider web of sites and blogs. Think of them, if you will, as the new web rings.

GiantRedCarpet.com curates tweets from silver screen luminaries such as Ben Stiller, George Clooney, our own Wil Wheaton (he'll always belong to the geeks), and, obviously, the ubiquitous Ashton Kutcher. So you can follow him without, you know, following him. It also gathers updates from "gadfly" Perez Hilton, several athletes, director Kevin Smith, and a surprisingly diverse collection of musicians from Ashlee Simpson to Yoko Ono. I guess what they say is true: Everybody really is doing it.

ThePetFeed.com is simply freakin' strange. We've heard before about people who set up Twitter accounts for their animal companions. This site is their mothership, an aggregation of the passing thoughts of cats, dogs, birds, rodents, and one lonely capybara (go ahead, click the link, you know you have no idea what a capybara is).

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After a long and thoughtful pause, all we can say is good on you, SawHorse.


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  1. Good post Jolie! I'm surprised to know that even pets are now into Twitter.

    Posted by: MMO Pinoy | April 29, 2009 6:31 PM



  2. Note the grassroots movement to build hyperlocal city sites based on Twitter feed aggregation. An example is Breaking SF News.com

     Posted by: Patrick Author Profile Page | April 29, 2009 9:24 PM



  3. community built on combed tweets is a direction twitter app should head to, I am just not sure if they get it right.

    Posted by: grant | April 29, 2009 10:31 PM



  4. I am new to twitter, and still getting used to it.

    Posted by: Free Karma | April 30, 2009 12:39 AM



  5. yes,you say right,use twitter very long time,but this days go there a little time...

    Take a moment....
    welcome to my blog,
    http://alextomi.blogspot.com/

    Posted by: Alex | April 30, 2009 12:56 AM



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