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Monthly Archives: October 2009
A Mobile Twitter Device?
What the Blackberry did for mobile e-mail, there’s a new device hoping to do the same for Twitter. Called the TwitterPeek, it’s a mobile device that promises to offer life-time Twitter access for $199.95 Here’s the sales pitch, which sounds like one of those late-night “call now and we’ll throw in a free set of [...]
What’s Your Twitter Score or Rank?
An inherent but perhaps under-publicized part of the social media universe is vanity – people are interested in how many friends they have, how many followers, and how they rank within a social media service. For whatever reason, Twitter has more than its fair share of scoring/ranking services. Among them is TwitterGrader from HubSpot, which [...]
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Twitter Search – Powered by Google
There are lots and lots of ways to do searches on Twitter – some of the leading players include Twazzup, Scoopler and Summize. Another entrant is Twitter Search Engine, which is powered by Google Custom Search. It’s a fast, no-frills search engine that generates 10 results per page. TSE, created earlier this year, plans to [...]
TweetPortal’s View of the World
One of the more interesting parts of the Twittersphere are the services trying to show you the news from around the world based on Twitter activity. Tweetmeme, for example, that display the “hottest” links on Twitter. Another news service worth checking out is TweetPortal, which aggregates tweets from major news organizations and well-known Twitter users [...]
Red-Hot Retweets
Retweets (aka RT) are a popular way to quickly pass along interesting tweets, while giving credit to the person who wrote the update. In some respects, Retweets are also a pretty good barometer of the hottest stories or Web sites based on the ideas that something that’s Retweeted a lot must be attracting a lot [...]
Scoopler Raises Seed Found