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Well over at masable they found a very amusing and fun site Tweetrad.io. The site treats tweets from your twitter searches like tunes on an old radio. The tweets are read out by an automated twitter DJ as they are rolled out.

So basically you can search for tweets or click on the trending topics and well you can listen to the tweets as a pose to actually reading them. Is this the beginning of twitter for the blind?

The developer posted a description of it earlier today, saying:

“We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs are placed on the queue via api calls from the javascript client that interacts with twitter’s search api directly in order to avoid rate limiting of a centralized search server. Our app server is a lightweight Sinatra service that handles job queueing. We stream the audio directly from our nginx web server as they become available via the conversion process.

We are trying to decide if this app has a real use case or if it’s just a fun thing. One of the ideas we are thinking about is an iphone app for keeping up with your tweet stream on the go. We would love to hear your feedback.”

Thanks to techcrunch for the below video:

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