Facebook may have made the idea of “social walls” popular, but there are plenty of third party services that allow you to create customizable walls that go beyond what Facebook has done. Let’s say you want to create a wall on Twitter about your favorite topic or hashtags. That can be easily done using a service such as Tweetwally. Tweetwally allows you to filter through tweets using hashtags, usernames, and keywords. You can also track tweets by mentions (@) as well. The wall automatically updates itself, which is what you would expect from Web 2.0 mashups these days. Here is the wall that I have created for Wordpress:

If you happen to be interested in choosing your own URL for your wall, that option is available to you as well as long as you sign in to the service by using your Twitter account. I used http://wp.tweetwally.com/ for my Wordpress wall. You can change the look and feel of your wall and add your own description to it as well.

So why would you need a Twitter wall? For starters, it makes tracking a specific topic much more convenient. Besides, you can share it on your blog with your visitors. You can also embed it on your blog as well. All in all, a cool free service that gives you yet another way to create targeted walls based on Twitter content. Let’s hope it stays around and gets the improvements it needs in the future.