Mike Langford (@mikelangford), CEO of Tweetworks, granted his first interview to Agent Genius, a multi-author real estate blog designed by and for real estate agents nationwide.

Tweetworks creates discussion groups and threaded conversations for Twitter users to maintain coherent, easy-to-follow conversations. In the interview, Langford talks about how the original idea for Tweetworks popped into his head while in the shower one day and that one of his goals was to take Twitter and make it, “easy enough for my mom or my mother-in-law to use.”

Mike Langford also frames Tweetworks as a way to follow only the exact topics you want to hear about. When you find someone who is interested in the same thing as you, you may decide to follow them. However, then you’re also stuck listening to all of the other things they talk about, which you may not be interested in.

“On Tweetworks,” he says, “you can go straight to the topic you are interested in and follow only that topic.”

Other items Mike pointed out included:

• Tweetworks will have some form of a desktop application
• Tweetworks will not be including followers into their site
• Tweetworks will be rolling out individual profile pages on its site

The interviewer, Lani Rosales (@LaniAR), shared her thoughts about the service in the accompanying blog post:

“One of the features I love is that you can deselect the “post this on twitter” option and communicate completely outside of Twitter which is helpful, especially in your private tweetworks groups.

If you don’t like the folly of Twitter, this is the perfect tool for practical, controlled use of Twitter and allows you to get very specific with how you engage conversations.”

Catch the full interview below:

In a tweet from @waynesutton earlier tonight I was introduced to a new Twitter service called Tweetworks, a site designed to make microblogging more useful for people and businesses by creating groups and centralizing discussions around specific topics.

Although there are rudimentary ways to track conversations on Twitter by using hashtags, Tweetworks takes it a step further by creating discussion groups and threading conversations together. According to Tweetworks creators, “tweets stay together where they belong.” They claim that users will no longer need to click on an endless procession of “in reply to” links (something that was even more futile a few months ago before Twitter implemented ‘in reply to’ functionality) just to follow a conversation.

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