Squidoo Releases Twttrstrm.com

I am a huge fan of Squidoo and wanted to share their latest tool with you. This press release is taken directly from their site.

January 16, 2009

SQUIDOO RELEASES TWTTRSTRM.COM, A NEW TOOL FOR GATHERING FEEDBACK FROM YOUR TWITTER FOLLOWERS

Ask a question of your Twitter followers and automatically gather their answers in one handy place.

Squidoo.com this week launches Twttrstrm.com, a lightweight free tool that helps Twitter users organize and archive feedback from their followers.

Twttrstrm makes it easy for anyone on Twitter to create a page about a topic, question, prediction or debate. “Should I buy a Blackberry or an iPhone?” or “What do you think of Alltop?” or “Short reviews of The Dark Knight”…”

With one click, followers can respond and in turn easily tweet their answers. A powerful element of a twtterstrm is that you not only reach your followers, but you reach your followers’ followers, and so on. And then, once the storm has passed, the record of the conversation stays live for the rest of the web to see for weeks or years to come.

“Here’s the magic part,” says Squidoo founder Seth Godin. “As your followers click through and respond, the storm spreads to their followers. So, in short, it’s a threaded, viral, structured conversation in the middle of the Twitter melee.”

Powered by Squidoo’s popular platform, every Twttrstrm page supports versatile uses far beyond just simple polls or surveys. It’s simple to add content ranging from videos, photos and polls, to links, RSS feeds and even Amazon and eBay widgets. These options help bring background and context to the central question or statement.

And every page generates revenue, for the person who built it or for the charity of their choice. Some Squidoo users earn more than $40,000 a year.

“One of Twitter’s many strengths is in culling realtime (or near to it) feedback from your followers,” says Squidoo Editor in Chief Megan Casey. “If Robert Scoble asks for restaurant recommendations in Tokyo, 10 minutes later he’s got some. But it’s hard to see all the @reply responses at once, even with the help of hashtags. Even harder to access that rich, human content a few days later. So we’ve created an easy way for Twitter users to gather and store all responses to a certain question or discussion. In the Scoble example, a single list of great restaurants in Tokyo is a super useful page to share with the rest of the web. You get the best of both worlds: quick feedback, and an organized storehouse for it.”

Go to http://www.twttrstrm.com/ to start your free page in under 2 minutes.

About Squidoo:

Squidoo LLC was founded by bestselling author, noted blogger, speaker and Original Squid, Seth Godin. The stated function of the site is to make it easy for people to create free pages (called “lenses”) on their interests, and to earn royalties for their good content. Nearly 40% of all Squidoo users donate the royalties they earn from the site to charity. There are nearly 1,000,000 handbuilt lenses on Squidoo.