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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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Hone In On Hashtags

Many people use hashtags – those things at the end of a tweet that start with the # symbol – but how do you get value from them? One way is using Twubs, a user-friendly user that provides a way to do search for hashtags to quickly see a wide variety of tweets about a [...]
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What’s In Your Twitter Toolbox?

For many of us, Twitter has become an integral part of our professional and personal lives. And for most people in this group, there’s a lot more to Twitter than Twitter.com, which only features a few bells and whistles. Here’s what’s in my Twitter toolbox: 1. Tweetdeck: For my personal use of Twitter, Tweetdeck is [...]
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SnapBird Dives Deep into Twitter

A constant refrain from this blog is the inability to dive deep into Twitter’s archives for tweets from the past. Apparently, Twitter is working on this feature but until it arrives, getting access to archives is a frustrating exercise. A new player in the Twitter archive market is SnapBird, which is offering a new service [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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