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May 20, 2010 • 3:35 pm 0

Parade – the gosh darn cutest Twitter app yet

It is all about being cute in this one with IsParade.  Enter a search term and the results are brought to you in a parade.  Each person in the parade gets the avatar from the search results and the band brings them marching across.  The help is written in Japanese and I have yet to finish my Rosetta Stone course, but it just works.

Tweets are shown as balloon pop-ups.  You can click anyone to get them to pause and dance to show you their tweet.  Some play drums, some skip, some march.  I don’t even want to give it away.  Just go enter a keyword or Twitter id and watch the festivities.  The music is different the couple things I tried.

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January 5, 2010 • 10:50 am 0

Bettween: A New Conversation Tracker For Twitter

Bettween is a new conversation tracker for Twitter. Hailing itself as the ultimate in its class, Bettween allows you to input the user name of two twitter users and follow any conversations between them. It’s a good way to follow unfolding conversations between celebrities, or keep track of previous conversations you’ve had with your followers.

We’ll warn you now, if the people you search for tweet a lot, it could be up to 5 minutes before any matches are displayed.  It does attempt to go back as far in tweets as possible, but this is apparently only done once so the lag will not show again.  Also, no authentication is required, so this means if they have protected tweets you will not be able to capture the data.

ReTweet Me

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January 5, 2010 • 9:24 am 0

Flocking.Me – searches and trends from just your Twitter friends

Flocking.me takes a great approach to searches against twitter.  Instead of a search giving you results form everyone, it only gives results from your friends.

Authentication is done via oAuth and offers four areas to work with:

  • search results from your friends
  • results on a map
  • trends from just your friends
  • live updates

This is a great tool you should add to your arsenal of ways to gather information and see what is hot.  We already know that your friends are a finely tuned micro-community.  Exploit that with this tool.

After you authenticate, it prompts you to send a tweet you are using the service and to follow them.  Both are simple checkboxes you can leave enabled (default) or disable.  You get a new web interface over your Twitter background in a grid mode showing recent tweets from those you follow.  Icons on the top left allow you to change from the grid, map mode and list form.  What was weird is that I could not reply or retweet from any of the ones showing.  I could cick to see more on that person, but that was it.

Trends show across the top and there is a button for your lists now as well as the number of new tweets shows so you can refresh the grid or map.  When I zoomed all the way out on the map it did not seem to refresh but that could have just been my connection at the moment of testing.

ReTweet Me

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October 12, 2009 • 10:41 am 0

TweetChat – ‘realtime’ chat around hastags

TweetChat is a unique approach to hashtag searches and conversations.  After using oAuth to log in, you search for or select a hashtag to view the current tweets around.  This puts you into a channel with only information about that hashtag showing up.

This is important to pull yourself out of the river of Twitter and into a nice bubbling brook (for lack of a better water example).  You can pause (called SmartPausing in their system) the conversation and even block spammers from showing.  This allows you to focus and communicate through tweets with everyone around the topic.

After logging in, I saw my Twitter background overlayed with their UI asking what hashtag to search for.  I chose to check in on one of two conferences going on while writing this.  @Corvida is at Blogalicious09 and UKLUG just finished.  I was able to reply, retweet, favorite and see user controls for each result.  I could also change rooms in the upper right to a new hashtag.

This site is incredibly useful for working with everything around an event.  The upper (slighty obscure) settings allowed me to pause, refresh speed, font controls, share link and more user controls.

Whoa, last second item.  If there is too much traffic you could slow it down or pause, but a great user control feature I found was the ability to feature users.  I didn’t find a description of this feature, but that is a great!!  Toggling the font made it smaller to show more lines.  Refresh speed allowed every 5 to 60 seconds.

I wish they could bring in picture popup and showing where links go, but otherwise I liked the site.

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October 12, 2009 • 8:17 am 0

WhosTalking – social media search tool

WhosTalking was referred by a comment to a posting here on EverythingTwitter.  It scouts across social networks looking for posts around whatever search term you include.  The site searches across a reported 60 social sites (which sites it searches was found later) and uses and AJAX interface.

When the results are returned, the middle is a descending, combined timeline of items it finds across the networks.  All are hotlinks to the direct sites themselves.  It would be nice if they could provide some preview when hovering or clicking before opening new tabs/windows.

The left column allows you to sort by a myriad of options and sub-options:

  • blogs
  • news
  • networks
  • videos
  • images
  • forums
  • tags

These suboptions show the individual networks that are searched for further filtering.  Below that was a hidden feature of options.  It allows you to save the search and even get an RSS feed result of your search to follow in your favorite feedreader.

Why was this important to Twitter?  Well it is really a search tool but shows the topic across sites, possibly growing the conversation just found on Twitter.

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September 7, 2009 • 1:00 pm 0

Tweetag – Browse the Twittosphere

Tweetag can be viewed as a Twitter search dashboard, keeping you updated on current most discussed topics alongside related searches, retweets, status updates and tweeted links containing your search term. It sports a nice UI design and nicely placed tabs to sort between the types of tweets available for each search.

Filed under: Search Tools, Uncategorized, , ,

August 26, 2009 • 11:02 am 1

FlashTweet – a complete twitter account management tool

FlashTweet is quite the surprise since it has so many tools inside of it.  We ran across this by accident and were impresed with the clean UI.  Until we hit one roadblock below.  First, here is a short list of features:

  • bulk follow by search terms
  • multiple accounts
  • scheduling of tweets
  • pull in RSS feeds to your Twitter stream
  • see who you follow that follows you back

Now for the downside, or simply something you are not used to.  It is not free.  After your 14 day trial, you move into automatic billing of $6.95/month until you cancel.  Read the Privacy Policy to make sure you opt out in advance from them using your personal data for marketing or anything else.

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August 10, 2009 • 10:32 am 0

Heapr – Search Google, WolframAlpha, Twitter, Flickr, and other at once

Heapr is an aggregated search engine that lays claim to a large search playground.  The landing page is a simple and clean page, much like Google.  No fluff.  Cool colors and a search box.   You can choose between searching web, images and videos.

I searched for myself, IdoNotes, and I immediately saw how it is aggregated to display, but in a clean format.  The main results on the left are Google results.  On the right is another column that defaults to Twitter.  But you may also choose between Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia.

I found that I am not in Wikipedia and that you can also add Heapr as a search engine choice in your browser with their plugin.  Another small dropdown I found allowed you to change the language of choice as well.

Filed under: Search Tools,

July 21, 2009 • 10:41 am 0

Twithority – search by Twitter authority

Twithority takes the standard Twitter search and adds value for the authority of the person that the results come from.  This joins into the one of many search tools we categorize.  So how did the results differ?

I went ahead and did a search for Bing since we just posted BingTweets earlier.  what I received back was two columns.  The left column with the results was the keyword, or trend, I searched for returned in order of the number of followers.  So for Bing I got back TechCrunch and Mashable high on the list.  I could reply or view.  Both took me to the web interface for Twitter.  There was no site integration for retweet, reply or follow of that source.

The right column was the top 10,000 by Time.  Results came back with Bing cherries and anything else since it was strictly lokoing at the last tweet with that keyword, instead of by authority.  So you get the result both ways in one search.

Both columns also included a RSS output link if I wanted to follow this longer term by RSS instead of using any of the other clients we highlighted on here that will do that live, like TweetGrid.

Overall a quick and clean site.  However, the main goal of a lot of side links and bottom links was to drive you to the sister site Daymix, also in beta.  It was not Twitter related.

Filed under: Search Tools,

July 21, 2009 • 8:08 am 0

BingTweets – merging Twitter and Bing searches

BingTweets is much like Twoquick (that we highlighted weeks ago) in merging a search engine with Twitter search to give broader results.  The UI has many little panels, so let me go into some detail.

  • The top right is the main search box
  • The top left is real-time trends for people, places and products.  You can click through all the trends which makes changes to the following panels
  • The bottom left panel is tweets that change based on what trend you have selected above
  • The bottom right is Bing results that changed based on what trend you have selected
  • The middle right then allows you to tweet the search results out or share it across multiple networks

Overall it was fast to respond and update the panels on each click.  I can see future enhancements including oAuth on the main page for Twitter or Facebook, saved searches for later retrieval and even sharing across groups.  Good implementation.

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