Our first month with Twingly has been intense, interesting and fun. The feedback has been overwhelming, and we’re thrilled by all the positive comments reaching us. We feel it’s time to sum up recent events and share our view of things to come.
Launch
Twingly was launched on February 6 by the largest Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter at DN.se. The immediate feedback was very positive and the following day the second largest daily Svenska Dagbladet launched their implementation of the service at Svd.se.
Twingly has created new opportunities and important changes both in the Swedish blogosphere and for the major news web sites. DN and SvD have, since launching Twingly, been overtaking all other news sites in terms of links coming from the blogosphere – an effect that we’re obviously thrilled by.
While launching Twingly at DN and SvD was a big event for us, we’ve also been up to other things.
Twingly Screensaver
In February we released our global blog activity 3D visualization into the public domain. Our two (very talented) students Malin and Linus did a really great job with it – it’s very cool, slightly useful (as a screensaver) but most importantly it shows a great overview of what’s going on in the blogosphere. Right now several thousand people are using it every day and our demo movie on Youtube has been watched by131,000 people.
Sunday Times in South Africa will be using Twingly
The largest weekly in South Africa, The Sunday Times, have chosen Primelabs and Twingly as their provider of blog data. We’re of course thrilled and hope to be able to announce even more international customers this spring.
The Future
We look ahead with great confidence and see a bright future for Twingly. Feedback from the blogosphere and media has been overwhelmingly positive, which gives us a lot of confidence now that we’ll move into international sales. Our vision is to evolve through the services we provider, so we’ll be continuously adding new functions and services. The Twingly website is currently just an embryo and will be developing both in terms of form and function.
Thank you!
So many things have happened in the few months since launch. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the bloggers, the media and everyone for the enthusiasm and energy you’ve contributed with. We had great expectations but had still not counted on getting such awesome feedback.