In July I mentioned that Twitter bought Summize, a search engine that indexes tweets, and redirected the site to http://search.twitter.com. Now finally, almost 8 months later, Twitter Search is fully integrated into the Twitter top nav. A search box is now globally accessible and the top 10 trending topics are displayed in a dropdown. In [...]
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Twitter finally integrates Twitter Search a.k.a. Summize
March 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Design, Twitter
Twitter buys Summize
July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Twitter
Twitter’s search engine has always pretty much sucked. The functionality was put on the site in August 2007, but it only searches username, location, bio and URL — not the actual tweets in the stream. Lots of folks out there have used the Twitter API to build their own search engine, the most popular of [...]
Tags:Mashups·Productivity·Twitter
Social Feed Aggregators
May 30th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Social Networking
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of powerful social networking platforms out there, with new ones launching every week. Send 140-character messages with Twitter. Save links with del.icio.us. Promote content with Digg. Share music with Last.fm. It’s endless. Lifestreaming — recording your daily activities through text, links, photos, music and video — is quickly becoming the [...]
Tags:Mashups·RSS·Social Networking·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
Quotably
March 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Twitter
Whether you view your friends’ tweets on Twitter.com or through one of the many desktop clients (Twhirl, Snitter, Twitterific), they’re always listed in backwards chronological order — latest tweet in the Friend Timeline at the top. A few websites out there use the API to display the tweets in different orders and configurations. Ones that [...]
Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Linkage
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