What is Paper.li and Why Should I Use It?

For the longest time I’ve explained twitter as being a newspaper where you control which news feeds you want. It’s a fail on your part if the people you follow only tweet about taking a dump or eating a salad or what ever. Paper.li is an app, more or less, for twitter that takes all the links, photos and movies posted on your twitter feed (or around certain keywords, or other twitter users) and compiles them into a newspaper like format.

This is fantastic, I think. The first one I ever saw was from Tananarive Due, a writer I like. Soon I learned that Joe Rogan has one, and so do many, many other people. I started a few just to see how diverse and specific I can make them. You can add up to five sources for the paper, but you can cheat this by using the list feature. Any number of people can be in a list on twitter and your paper.li will take your list as one source.

You should head on over to Paper.li and see what they got going on. This is a great tool to help you promote your triond articles, blogs or art projects.