Tool of the week for journalists - TimeKiwi, to create social media timelines
A new, free timeline tool to map out tweets and blog posts
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A new tool to turn tweets, blog posts and Instagram photos into a timeline. Add a Twitter handle, a Tumblr, WordPress and Posterous blog and an Instagram account and TimeKiwi will mash them into a combined timeline.
How is it of use to journalists?
For storytelling. The tool allows you to demonstrate how a story has progressed. The tool does not require you to authorise the app so you can add any Twitter handle to see how that person's tweets have played out over time.
Take this example of a timeline of canon Dr Giles Fraser who resigned from his role as chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral last week over plans to forcibly evict Occupy protesters. Adding his @giles\_fraser handle allows you to show his tweets as either a vertical or horizontal timeline. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-40668" height="127" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43881&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Giles Fraser" width="540"> The free version of TimeKiwi cannot be embedded so it is of limited use in telling a story on your site but you can still share links to created timelines. A "business" version is in the pipeline which promises an embed feature and custom views which could be of particular interest to journalists who can then show mapped out tweets and blog posts within a news story. This TimeKiwi takes in the @journalismnews Twitter account and the Journalism.co.uk WordPress blog . <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-40669" height="405" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43882&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Journalism.co.uk's Twitter and WordPress timeline" width="540">
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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