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Fresh and Hot – Lazyscope


Many of us use Twitter as we acknowledge it’s power as a communication tool. It’s ease of use, live delivery and wide menu of options make it worth our while to micro-blog. The introduction of short URLs made the tweeting experience complete. About 14% of all Twitter users login to their accounts via the web(twitter.com). All the others use a Twitter client that suit their tastes and needs. I have gone through several and there are many to choose from. The more popular ones are TweetDeck, Twitpic, Twitter for iPhone, UberTwitter, Twitterrific and Tweetie for Mac, to name a few. The choice depends on which candy catches your eye.

Still, to actually see/read content of a URL in a Twitter feed, you need to click and wait for a new window/tab to open. Wouldn’t it be great to have all the content right there next to the Twitter feed? Enter Lazyscope. Released just a few days ago, this new Twitter client presents the user with all the content associated with the particular feed on a column next to it. It unpacks the URLs and visually delivers the links and its contents including images and videos.

In a Twitter feed, this is what you see:

Lazyscope presents you with this:

Be the first of your friends to try this out. I am sure you will like it.

There are other features. Read about them in the related articles below.

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