Tewspaper is an online newspaper with a difference, uniquely it has no writers and draws it’s news content entirely from from social media.

Tewspaper currently covers five cities in the US where its’ algorithm aims to find the best news from social media which is then catergorized by area and topic. Although still looking a little rugged, and still in beta phase, it plans to expand across more US cities and possibly other countries.

Tewspaper is good because its’ news is based on user generated content, it can help you because by including users’ opinions on its’ website, this can lead to more followers on social media sites, blog or a contributors website.

The science behind Tewspaper is by using publicly available APIs it connects with social media sites and finds relevant data. It has an innovative system for filtering through obscure messages, articles and information to find relevant news on social media sites.

The Tewspaper concept is useful when you consider sites like, Twitter which now has over 2 billion messages, and is growing by literally thousands of messages per minute. Tewspaper makes it easier to find out what is happening now, and in an organized and accessible format. It represents a new concept for the internet users, who love to text and “tweet”, to view the latest news at a rapidly moving pace.

Jared Lamb is the creator of Tewspaper, he explains that the newspaper started, “by limiting the news to trusted authorities on Twitter”. From there, the algorithm developed to find additional breaking news from anyone on Twitter and other websites right as it’s happening. Tewspaper also automatically matches images to related stories and determines the optimal image to display for every story based on the author, subject, headline text, date, links, and other factors.

With the overwhelming success of Facebook and Twitter, social media is now at the heart of many SEO and online marketing strategies so it will be interesting to see how Tewspaper grows.

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