One of the better descriptions of Twitter I’ve read on their blog likens it to “your own personal wire service.”. So what if we took that concept and ran with it?

Well, if you wanted to follow the latest headlines about the top 100 technology companies in CrunchBase you'd try to locate a Twitter user who obsessively searched for new mentions, sorted out the best sources, and shared the most-relevant stories. That's what you'll get if you follow @CrunchAlerts — except that it's a robot that's automated the entire process...

We're experimenting with this approach to see if users would prefer to see news headlines about the people and companies they work with alongside all of the other conversations streaming in from their online social networks.

We'd appreciate your feedback about concerns such as: Should we have multiple channels, say for each company? Could we use hashtags to make searching easier? Or is it an odd mashup that doesn't “fit” your own personal Zen of Twitter? Let us know by email, our forum, or tweet us at @Angstro.