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A Beautiful and Visual Way to Search Twitter

There are lots of Twitter search engines (Twazzup, Scoopler, Topsy, et al) but for something different and beautiful, check out True Colors of Twitter. It’s a visual search engine that shows tweets as different colored-bubbles that move across the screen. To see the contents of a “bubble”, you click on it. True Colors of Twitter [...]
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Five Questions with Scoopler’s Dilan Jayawardane

Last week, Scoopler, one of the leading Twitter search engines, raised $750,000 in a series A financing from a group of investors that includes well-known angel Ron Conway, who was one of Google’s early backers. I had a chance to ask Scoopler co-founder Dilan Jayawardane a few questions about the real-time search market, recent moves by [...]
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Scoopler Raises Seed Found

Scoopler, one of the leading search engines for Twitter, has raised a seed round of $750,000 from a group investors that includes Ron Conway and Michael Birch. The involvement of Conway is particularly newsworthy given he was an early investor in Google and Paypal. The money will be used to expand Scoopler’s team at a time [...]
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Searchtastic: Fine but Not Fantastic

One of the reasons I’m fascinated with search on the Web is the flurry of development into new ways and technologies to do search. Even though Google currently dominates search, start-ups continue to emerge convinced they’ve invented a better mousetrap. The same goes for search on Twitter; while Twitter’s in-house search engine does a fine [...]
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Scoopler Has the Scoop on Twitter Search

Here’s one of the mysteries of Twitter: it is emerging as a fascinating, valuable and powerful search tool yet there are a growing number of third-parties doing a significantly better job of providing search tools. Take, for example, Scoopler, which features a simple interface but user-friendly and extensive results. Here’s the home page: And here’s the results page [...]
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