Twazzup: A Better Twitter Search Engine
Twazzup, which just launched this morning, tries to bridge the gap between Twitter's real-time search and a more traditional search engine. While Twitter's real-time search is great for keeping an eye on current developments, it is not a great tool for seeing which links about a given topic are currently popular. On Twazzup, you can follow a real-time stream of updates including a certain keyword on the left, while the right sidebar shows the top tweets and a list of the top tweeted stories about this topic, as well as related photos from twitpic.
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One of the most interesting aspects of Twazzup is that it also displays a list of the most authoritative Twitter users who have tweeted about a given subject. This should allow Twazzup's users to quickly find interesting users who might be worth following.
In addition, Twazzup also allows you to easily restrict your searches through lists of related keywords and sub-trends.
Of course, Twazzup is entering into a rather crowded market. Oneriot, for example, just launched an alternative Twitter search engine that focuses on links, and services like MicroPlaza are trying to give users personalized Twitter meme trackers.
Thanks to its clever mix of real-time search and top-tweets, however, Twazzup offers a lot of functions that its competitors can't currently match. It would be great if we could also specify persistent searches on Twazzup, and some of the top tweets and related photos sometimes seem a bit off, but for a first public release, Twazzup already provides a lot of functionality and the team will surely improve upon this in the future.
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Created a friendfeed room to try to track interesting use cases/queries where I like twazzup better than the plain twitter search: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/i-love-twazzup
Wow, this is awesome! I really like it. Intend to bookmark to make a regular part of research.
Yes, great website. Not a big fan of twitter's search & UI, but twazzup.com is awesome!
This is a powerful tool. I don't think I'll ever use vanilla search.twitter again. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Yet another reason that RRW stays in my RSS feed!
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Thanks for sharing this information with us. That's awesome, I am very excited about it. I will have a look at it tonight when I have more time.
I haven't been using real-time twitter search so far, I wouldn't make any comment about it.
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Great tool. Those features are added bonuses.
Thanks for the great article. I really like it
Fred
http://www.MyTwitterDirectory.com - The twitter yellow pages
Each of the services mentioned in this article is a bit better in some aspects - i.e. Twazzup presents all the search results in a nice dashboard with different types of content, while OneRiot is probably nice because of its simplicity. Then Microplaza comes up - it presents the results better than OneRiot. Still Twazzup is probably the best of the three here.
Twuugle is one of the best Twitter Search engines that I have found on the net. Unlike other twitter search sites, Twuugle filters results specific to Twitter and it's users rather than tweets. This is a powerful feature and get's to the core of niche specific research in real time. Random tweets posted by users can often contain useless information thus wasting time filtering through search results. Twuugle solves this problem thus creating a better visitor experience.
why does twitter try to hide their search app? seems goofy considering that's probably the most used part of twitter? well that and trending topics.
Thanks for sharing this is really great i would like to give it a try.
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