Category Archives: search

Combine Google and Twitter Searches

By Mark Evans | Published: August 4, 2010
As Twitter’s status as a search engine powerhouse continues to gain momentum, search has emerged as one of the more fascinating part of the Twitter ecosystem with dozens of start-ups such as Twazzup, Topsy and Scoopler scrambling for a foothold. A search engine looking to get a piece of the action is Tweetaboogle, which combines [...]
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BackTweets: Tracking Twitter Links

By Mark Evans | Published: July 26, 2010
A key part of using Twitter is including links to interesting content and Web sites. For people providing or tracking these links, it’s always interesting to see how much attention to they receive. A simple tool to see how many tweets include a specific links is BackTweets. Just provide the URL, click on “search”, and [...]
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SnapBird Snaps at Twitter Search

By Mark Evans | Published: July 20, 2010
There are lots of alternative to Twitter’s search engine, but one worth checking out is SnapBird. Aside from being easy to use, SnapBird offers a variety of useful search features. These includes being able to search for another Twitter user’s tweets and their favorites, and searching for public tweets that are older than 10 days [...]
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Want More Details Than Just Profile Info?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 18, 2010
Are you looking for more information about someone on Twitter other than the details in their profile? If so, check out Foller.me, which provides someone’s Twitter profile, a tag cloud of their recent tweets, hashtags they may have used, and a map showing where their followers are located.
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