Here’s one of the curious things about Twitter: After investing the time to build a solid group of people to follow (that is, unless you’re one of those auto-followers), it’s not that easy to leverage your flock. For example, it should be a snap to do searches limited to the people you follow as opposed to the entire Twitter population. It would also be nice to see where everyone is located.
Stepping into the breach is Flocking Me, which provides a way to read and search for tweets, as well as see some of the trending keywords. Flocking Me offers three different ways to read tweets – a regular stream, a grid and a map view.
You can also do searches for specific keywords using the same views. For example, the screen capture at the bottom is a search for “Twitter” using the grid view.
The Bottom Line: Flocking Me is interesting, particularly the ability to do searches among your followers, but it would be a lot more useful if you could post tweets as well.
Get More Out of Your Twitter Flock
Here’s one of the curious things about Twitter: After investing the time to build a solid group of people to follow (that is, unless you’re one of those auto-followers), it’s not that easy to leverage your flock. For example, it should be a snap to do searches limited to the people you follow as opposed to the entire Twitter population. It would also be nice to see where everyone is located.
Stepping into the breach is Flocking Me, which provides a way to read and search for tweets, as well as see some of the trending keywords. Flocking Me offers three different ways to read tweets – a regular stream, a grid and a map view.
You can also do searches for specific keywords using the same views. For example, the screen capture at the bottom is a search for “Twitter” using the grid view.
The Bottom Line: Flocking Me is interesting, particularly the ability to do searches among your followers, but it would be a lot more useful if you could post tweets as well.