Frrole.com turns live Twitter data into local online newspapers.
Twitter may not be the most accurate form of breaking news, but one thing is for sure: It’s one of the best ways to catch headlines as they happen.
The 140-character social media service distributes information in real time and has chronicled (and even enabled) major political movements such as the Arab Spring, as well as real-time community organization around social movements, celebrity news, and fundraising efforts. (Even the actions of Seal Team 6 were reported on Twitter during the taking of Osama Bin Laden, when someone in the Pakistan neighborhood heard the helicopters!)
With so much information moving so quickly across Twitter, it makes that someone would try and use the power of internet technologies to organize and that information in a format you could more easily digest.
Enter Frrole.com, a website which is trying to be the first “social newspaper” based almost entirely on Twitter’s trending topics. By scanning Tweets and organizing them by city, you can now browse your “local edition” of the Frrole newspaper. Even better, that local info is further broken down by categories, such as Headlines, Sports, Travels, Jobs, Entertainment and more.
While “your mileage may vary” when it comes to the overall utility of Frrole in these early stages, it can be an enlightening and helpful way to get breaking news without manually scanning Twitter. It’s also useful if you’re traveling to other cities and want to be current on some of the “chatter” around what’s going on at your destination.
Test Frrole out for yourself: http://www.frrole.com
