There is an overwhelming number of tools for twitter: url shorteners like bit.ly, web clients like hootsuite.com but today I would like to show you twitter tools which are good to search tweets, lets you archive them, display trends and more. I picked tools which could be useful when you are looking only for relevant information without noise. Let me know your favourites to get news out of Twitter!
For the Twitter search tools I always made a quick test to get a feeling how much noise these tools can filter away and only two tools out of a dozen – see below – made it easy to find the following news one day later:
- A java security alert – when searching java
- Mubarak escape when searching egypt
The tools are
- Jetwick – Free to use (Caution: I’m the developer)
- Research.ly – Freemium (Caution: it required a bit selecting of the appropriated days to got the news)
Twazzup and What The Trend also showed the news I was looking for, but the news weren’t in their displayed tweets – they also display blogs and google news in a separate widget :). To my surprise in SocialMention and Bing Social Search the security news didn’t pop up, but other news important to java developers occur. So, give it a shot. The problem for the other search engines was that they mostly cover the real time tweets only and do not provide a lot of useful filters and some of the search tools simply were not designed for this task.
I’ve splitted the tools in the following subgroups:
- Searching & Archiving
- Searching
- The Giants under the Twitter Searches
- Archiving
- Cool Tools
1 Searching & Archiving
- Archive a search; Trending URLs; Top Users
- Alexa rank: 13k
- Login required to archive, Free to use
- Archive and Search your tweets
More Features … - Alexa rank: 217k
- Open Source – you need to host it yourself
- Open Twitter Search without Noise; Sort against retweets; Lets you show only relevant tweets since the last login; Archiving and Searching of any users’ tweets; Search friends only; Filters for duplicate reduction, language or a distinct day
More Features … - Open Source which makes it suitable to do your own research on twitter
- Alexa rank: 400k
- Login optional, Free to use
2 Searching
- Twitter Search
More Features … - Alexa rank: 2k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Searches Blogs, Twitter, MySpace, News, Images, …
- Alexa rank: 5k
- Without Login, Free to use
- Searches Blogs, Twitter, … Every Search shows Top Keywords and Users
- Alexa rank: 7k
- Without Login, Free to use
- User Search
- Alexa rank: 7k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Twitter directory (‘Twitter yellow pages’)
- Alex rank: 9k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Twitter Search to see trends; uses Hounder under the hood.
More Features … - Alex rank: 36k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Search Trends on Twitter
More Features … - Alexa rank: 43k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Keeps you informed about search and social
More features … - Alexa rank: 43k
- Without login, Free to use
- A real-time search engine for syndicated (RSS/ATOM) content on the web
More Features … - Alexa rank: 48k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Twitter Search with hottest links
More Features … - Alexa rank: 68k
- Without login, Free to use
- Search ‘historic’ tweets; Search local business; Map the relationships between you and other users
- Created from the
- Alexa rank: 88k
- Login required,Freemium
- Business Twitter Search
- Alexa rank: 113k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Searches Twitter or Identica
It also supports archiving! - Alexa rank: 141k
- Without login, Free to use
- New Twitter Search
More Features … - Alexa rank: 295k
- Without login, Free to use
- Search local business
- Alexa rank: 331k
- Does not work at the moment?? As of Feb 2011
- Search within your friends, favourites, direct messages etc further back than 10 days
More Features … - Alexa rank: 312k
- Login required, Free to use
- Search your old tweets
- Alex rank: 390k
- Login required, Free to use
- Twitter Search with improved UI for local search
More Features … - Alexa rank: 1200k
- Without login, Free to use
- Twitter Search which shows related search
- Alexa rank: 1600k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Search within your friends’ tweets
More Features? - Alexa rank: 1800k
- Login required, Free to use
- Search and archive your own tweets
- Alexa rank: 4400k
- Login required, Free to use
The Giants under the Twitter Searches
- Advanced Twitter Search – the official Twitter Search with some cool features!
- Googles Twitter Search
- Bing Social Search
3 Archiving
- See how many people you reach on twitter, stats
More Features … - Alexa rank: 16k
- Login required, Freemium: Only free for link search otherwise 100$/month
- Track all tweets for a keyword, person, … good for archiving purposes
More Features … - Alexa rank: 138k
- Login required, Freemium
- Daily Backup of tweets, favourites, etc
More Features … - Alexa rank: 142k
- Login required, Free to use
- Archive followers and tweets
More Features … - Alexa rank: 360k
- Login requred, Free to use
- Take control of your Twitter account and make it permanent
More Features … - Alexa rank: 625k
- Login required, Freemium
4 Cool Tools
- Search Twitter Users; Up vote users (not tweets)
- Alexa rank: 6k
- Login optional, Freemium
- Explore Twitter and cleanup your account
More Features … - Alexa rank: 7k
- Login required, Free to use
- Trends; Stats for your account
- Alexa rank: 21k
- Without login, Free to use
- Most popular users and twitter stats
- Alexa rank: 23k
- Login optional, Free to use
- User-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter – this way you can find the meaning of a hashtag – Similar to find origin of jetwick
- Alexa rank: 45k
- Login optional, Free to use
- Twitter Alerts by Email
- Alexa rank: 124k
- Registration required, Freemium
- Trending links
- Alexa rank: 200k
- Without login, Free to use
- Reduce Noise in your Timeline
More Features … - Alexa rank: 290k
- Desktop or Mobile Client
- Login required, Free to use
- Displays the most relevant tweets since you logged in the last time – Similar to Jetwick’s RSS feature.
More Features … - Alexa rank: 375k
- Login required, Free to use
- Find hottest links on twitter! Why is there no search functionality??
More Features … - Alexa rank: 400
- Login optional, Free to use
- Multi Widget View; Determining Trends; filter Audio/Video
- Alexa rank: 1110k
- Without login, Free to use
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