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Tweetbe.at live twitter chat

I’ve been working on a side project for Twitter, which I discussed in a previous post - what it is is a live chatstream for twitter, which builds on the #hashtag idea

With tweetbe.at you can see who else is watching a #hashtag and chat with them. You can also fold in other searches or hashtags, or posts from other users into the stream:

The idea is based on the similarities between IRC and twitter, this tries to bridge the gap and add some of the benefits of IRC to twitter. In IRC you can start chatting without having to build a network of friends to chat with, and you can chat about some subjects at some times and then leave them alone at other times.

Right now it’s a proof of concept, but everything should be working mostly ok, and it features oauth integration so you can chat directly from tweetbe.at

You can change channels via the location hashtag ie: http://tweetbe.at/#tv - http://tweetbe.at/#javascript - http://tweetbe.at/#socialmedia

Channels can have added users, searches, hashtags, and also block users from appearing.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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