Twitoaster
Twitter web application
Twitoaster was a Twitter web application that threaded and archived users' conversations in real time. It was often used by journalists, bloggers or companies who need to collect, organize and keep a track of their Twitter mentions.
History
The service started in early 2009 as an experimental tool to help its creator, Arnaud Meunier, by efficiently handling his Twitter conversations. It was then quickly brought to ReadWriteWeb's attention as a solution for gathering replies to their poll tweets. But the service only became widely known when the New York Times columnist David Pogue used it to compile tweets for his book The World According to Twitter.
In September 2009, Mashable and Microsoft Bizspark showcased Twitoaster as a promising new software company in their Spark of Genius series: "The combination of search, archiving, analytics and visual way of better following conversation threads makes Twitoaster a great tool for any Twitter user’s toolbox."
It was announced that on March 20, 2011, the service would be shut down leaving only read access to the website active.
Description
Twitoaster groups replies and retweets with the tweets that inspired them, displaying Threaded discussions rather than disjointed tweets. All these conversations are archived and indexed in a conversational search engine. The service also provides analytics and statistics, showing for example, how many replies a Twitter member is generating and what day of the week, or time of day, seems to produce the most replies.
Twitoaster also provides an open API that allows third party application (websites, widgets...) to use its data and services.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Twitoaster” as twitter web application. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as twitter web application. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3542581. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Twitoaster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.