Twynergy app birthed from HP Labs, dives into what makes Twitter users tick, disappears into the night 23

It was only in the Palm Beta App feed for a short time, but there’s a new entry from HP in the app game: HP Twynergy. Though since pulled, the app was born from formulations created by HP Labs, from which they analyze a Twitter user’s posts for content and spit out a list of what it is that user talks about. You can then compare that user to another, getting a “similarity rating” that, well, rates how similar the two users are.

For instance, Twynergy found the author of this post (@dkdsgn) to be just 33% similar to SPE Editor-in-Chief Dieter Bohn (@backlon), who was found to be 94% similar to the PreCentral Twitter account (@precentral). As you can see - the app isn't the most useful but you can lose yourself in looking up comparison ratings for a spell.

Not only can the comparisons be made, you can also look at a user’s “persona,” i.e. what it is they talk about. Twynergy spits out a cloud (or list) of broad topics, into which you can delve further to find posts of that topic. Take PreCentral tips meister Adam Marks (@audemars02), whose tweets are dominated by Computers, a category in which he primarily discusses Systems, in particular webOS, the Palm Pre, and application stores.

So Twynergy is a quick and fun little app. Not just in that you can compare users and find out just how dissimilar (or similar) your interests are from people you know, but more so that even groups like HP Labs within the giant that is Hewlett-Packard are making proof-of-concept apps for webOS, possibly even from that approaching-unicorn-status internal app development competition held by HP. We're looking forward to seeing more.