# Twittering News Apps Smartr iPhone App is a Beautiful News Reader for Twitter By Summer Luu | Published 2011-02-01 | Tech Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/smartr-iphone-app References: [mashable](http://mashable.com/2011/01/31/smartr/) & [itunes.apple](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartr/id403220903?mt=8#) The Smartr [iPhone](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/brzzy-weather) App makes [social news reading](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/statuz) a lot easier as many people turn to [Twitter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/particle-news) to get a quick fix on their daily news content. The Smartr app collects all the tweets containing news content from your Twitter timeline. It filters out check-ins and badges, "Twitter spam" as they like to call it, and formats the articles into an easy-to-read link included with previews. The Smartr iPhone App turns the news-worthy tweets into beautiful, readable content. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 1.0/10 - Popularity: 9% | Activity: 13% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 70% men, 30% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, Europe, Asia ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Tech](https://www.trendhunter.com/tech) > [Mobile](https://www.trendhunter.com/mobile) ## Key Themes ### What Makes This Trend Stand Out - **Social News Reading:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a platform that aggregates and filters news content from social media platforms like Twitter to provide users with easily readable and curated news articles. - **Mobile News Apps:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a mobile app that collects and formats news articles from various sources, providing users with a seamless and personalized news reading experience. - **News Content Curation:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Build a tool that uses advanced algorithms to curate and organize news content from social media feeds, allowing users to easily access relevant and high-quality news articles. ### Sectors Adopting This - **Social Media:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop tools and platforms that enhance the social media experience by focusing on news content curation and delivery. - **Mobile App Development:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore the creation of innovative mobile apps that revolutionize the way users consume and interact with news content on their smartphones. - **Digital Journalism:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Leverage technology and automation to improve the efficiency and quality of news content curation, distribution, and consumption in the digital journalism industry. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Smarter News Consumption](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/newsbang.md) - [AI-Driven News Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/particle-news.md) - [Curated Newsreading Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/newsreading-app.md) - [AI-Powered News Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/particle-app.md) - [AI-Powered News Summary Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/concise-ai.md) - [AI-powered News Curators](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/news-organizing-tool.md) - [Intuitive Newsletter Reading Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/substack.md) - [Democratic Comparative News Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-daily-edit-app.md) - [AI News Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ai-news1.md)