5 Third Party Real-time Search Tools for Twitter
As Twitter is becoming booming, more and more tweets are full of our eyes, thus, a search tool for Twitter is necessary for Twitter users. However, Twitter Search however has its faults and don’t do a well job. Fortunately, various third party applications do a much better job of using Twitter Search to the best of its abilities and here are 5 better well-behaved tools among all of the real-time search tools for Twitter.
Tweet Scan is a Twitter-based search engine. Basically, what Tweet Scan lets you do is search Twitter’s public timeline for snippets of text. In total, Tweet Scan is a quick and easy way to find other users with similar interests. Through it, you can find out what people are saying about a topic, web site, political candidate, etc right now even if you aren’t a Twitter user.
Another better Twitter search engine, which tries to bridge the gap between Twitter’s real-time search and a more traditional search engine. In fact, it is looking to extend the Twitter Search platform, by not only providing real-time updates to the search results, but also highlighting popular users, links and tweets relevant to searched keywords.
Designed to help users surface useful information from the Twittersphere, Tweetzi is a real-time Twitter search tool that has a couple of interesting features such as allowing users to ‘play’ or ‘pause’ the search results stream. This is ideal for following breaking news, live blogging, keynotes and so on.
Summize Twitter Search, powered by Summize, is an excellent tool and searches through twitter (you can also search tweets made to or from a particular user) and shows you all the tweets based on that keyword. It helps you filter through everything to find what you really want.
It Allows Twitter users to search the name, screen name, bio and location fields of Twitter profiles, to identify people with similar interests. This is a good way to streamline your friend-making capabilities on Twitter by searching for people with similar jobs, like the same sports as you, or have the same hobbies.
What are your favorite real-time search tools for? Do you use tools like these to track happenings on Twitter? Maybe your favorite search tool is another one, but it is really useful and necessary for people to gain information as soon as possible.
September 27th, 2009 at 2:31 am
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Sounds good, thank you very much.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
there are plenty of real time search engines cropping up. http://www.sency.com/ just went live with a few unique features including a Feed for Websites
October 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
@Sency: Thanks for your reply. I will try it later.