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Bringing Murmel to the Fediverse

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Bringing Murmel to the Fediverse

Murmel is seeking a new home on the Fediverse. Our Mastodon beta is now live and ready to try.

Murmel: The Simplest Social Media Aggregator Out There

Murmel: The Simplest Social Media Aggregator Out There

Why Murmel is the simplest way to stay up-to-date on social media without getting distracted.

Five Weekend Longreads From Hacker News

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Five Weekend Longreads From Hacker News

There is no need to explain Hacker News - for the years of its existence, it has become synonymous with the Web itself. Hacker News is a place where Internet legends are born or torn to pieces. Its audience is notoriously critical - many try to win its approval, but

Coming Soon: AI-Assisted Content Classification for Everyone

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Coming Soon: AI-Assisted Content Classification for Everyone

Murmel had its first birthday a couple of months ago. This is a perfect time to gather our learnings and position ourselves closer to our ultimate mission: reduce information overload and help people get the bigger picture. Inside our team, we have had long-lasting experience with natural language processing and

Get Timely Alerts for Important News and Treading Topics.

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Get Timely Alerts for Important News and Treading Topics.

We are introducing a new email type for more frequent notifications. We call them alerts.

Our Weekend Reads #04

Weekend Reads Featured

Our Weekend Reads #04

Welcome to the latest edition of our Weekend Reads [https://blog.murmel.social/tag/weekend-reads/] series. Every week, we will publish a few articles that made it among our Top Stories. Like you, we are voracious readers, craving that extra bit of thought-provoking twist and careful use of words that

How to Get Started With RSS

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How to Get Started With RSS

As our readers know, Murmel [https://murmel.social] is all about incorporating open standards of information distribution. Alongside emails, we offer every Murmel customer the ability to receive instant updates about the latest trending news and stories using an open standard that has been at the core of what made

Create a Tailor-Made Murmel Experience for Your Business

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Create a Tailor-Made Murmel Experience for Your Business

When we set out to build Murmel [https://murmel.social] in the summer of 2021, we started with a simple proposition - deliver the best news and stories, reducing the time individuals spend scrolling online. With time, many customers quickly distinguished themselves from the rest - that of business professionals

Fast. Faster. Fastest!

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Fast. Faster. Fastest!

When we set out to build Murmel [https://murmel.social/] last year, we had two crucial technical goals in mind: * Develop a small and robust core using a technology stack that delivers outstanding performance out of the door and for an extended time. * Be as lean about the user experience

Happy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays!

Dear friends, We hope you are enjoying the holiday warmth with the people that matter to you. We wanted to say a big thanks to you for believing in Murmel [https://murmel.social]. This means a lot to us. What's more, it means that we have accomplished the

Black Friday Offer: Sign Up and Get a 50% Discount on Your Murmel Subscription

Black Friday Offer: Sign Up and Get a 50% Discount on Your Murmel Subscription

It's that time of the year again! For this year's Black Friday, we are offering a 50% discount on all new Murmel sign-ups registered until Nov 30th. All you need to do is add the promo code BLACKFRIDAY50 at checkout [https://murmel.social/home]. Hurry up!

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Get the Full Picture and Jump Into the Twitter Discussion

Often, it’s the simple features that bring the most significant impact. We issued a minor quality-of-life update today, which will help our customers better see the discussion going behind a specific link or story. One of our big goals with Murmel is to provide as much context about a

Introducing Twitter List Subscriptions

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Introducing Twitter List Subscriptions

We are happy to announce that we have recently released one of our highly requested features to all Murmel customers. Besides your personal Twitter timeline, you can now subscribe to any Twitter list and let Murmel discover the most shared news and stories in it. Subscribe to any available Twitter

Our Weekend Reads #03

Weekend Reads Featured

Our Weekend Reads #03

Every week, we will publish seven articles that made it among our Top Stories. Like you, we are voracious readers, craving for that extra bit of thought-provoking twist and careful use of words that make a great story.

Our Weekend Reads #02

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Our Weekend Reads #02

Every week, we will publish several articles that made it among our Top Stories. Like you, we are voracious readers, craving for that extra bit of thought-provoking twist and careful use of words that make a great story.

Our Weekend Reads #01

Weekend Reads Featured

Our Weekend Reads #01

Every week, we will publish seven articles that made it among our Top Stories. Like you, we are voracious readers, craving for that extra bit of thought-provoking twist and careful use of words that make a great story.

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The Trick to Writing Rockstar Newsletters

The trick to writing engaging newsletters is in thematically arranged online references mixed with one's personal observations. This article will demonstrate how you can use Murmel to make your newsletters more engaging and valuable.

Get the Best Out of Your Home Timeline With Two Simple Clicks

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Get the Best Out of Your Home Timeline With Two Simple Clicks

Murmel [https://murmel.social/]'s key advantage is finding related stories in one's Twitter timeline and grouping them together. What makes the task especially challenging is that different people's timelines vary significantly in quantity and variety of topics. Some people prefer to follow a small

Peek Beyond The Headlines With Murmel's Top Stories

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Peek Beyond The Headlines With Murmel's Top Stories

In the fast-paced stream of social media, we readers rarely have a chance to read an entire story from the beginning to the end, let alone consider all of its different angles. This is where context becomes critical.

Murmel goes out of beta 🎉

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Murmel goes out of beta 🎉

Since we released the first official beta version of Murmel [https://murmel.social/], we have been looking towards this moment. Thanks to the valuable feedback we gathered from our helpful beta testers, we can now move forward. To guarantee the future sustainability of our service, we have set out from

How we sort results in Murmel feeds

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How we sort results in Murmel feeds

A question we sometimes get asked is how Murmel [https://murmel.social/] feeds get their results sorted. It is not uncommon to get a post at the top shared by one person, followed by another shared by many more. This makes people who have tried similar tools ask themselves about