Twitter Search
We have been tracking ways people express their opinions and ideas on the web. One of the coolest ways people are sharing information now is Twitter. There are already a few ways for others to see this data now like Twitter's public timeline. If you want to search it there is already TweetScan that is pretty cool and you should check it out, but not being able to understand the message thread was a problem for us. There is Quotably for that, but search is still needed to find things and bouncing back and forth was a pain. Lastly, all the different languages out there makes it hard to find some things.
So, to that end we pointed our sentiment engine at Twitter's public timeline and a few days later we had a nice search system. Think of it like this: TweetScan + Quotably + language filtering = twitter.summize.com
- Auto update notification: If you keep the page up, it will notify you as new posts come in.
- Ability to search by language
- Ability to search to/from users
- Threaded conversations in search results
- Hash tags search
We also have OpenSearch for easy integration into your browsers and an Atom API for integration into your applications.
Hope you all like it and send us feedback.
Thanks,
Summize Team
Abdur
"Real time" ? Are you just hammering the Twitter feeds really hard?
Posted by: Stephen Paul Weber | April 11, 2008 at 06:52 PM
Hi Stephen --
No hammering involved: Twitter kindly pushes us the public timeline via Jabber/XMPP.
Posted by: Greg Pass | April 11, 2008 at 07:53 PM
Nice work on this, guys!
Ben
Quotably.com
Posted by: Ben Tucker | April 11, 2008 at 11:39 PM
really perfect work...
bloggersmosaic.com
Posted by: bloggers mosaic | April 12, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Nice work guys... +1
Posted by: Pete Skomoroch | April 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Great site, this one goes into the bookmarks folder.
Also: Is the facility of getting Twitter's public timeline updates via XMPP publicly available?
Posted by: CT | April 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Abdur you have done an awesome job with this, I love the attention to detail.
Posted by: Doug | April 15, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Really cool stuff. Excellent work.
Posted by: svante | April 16, 2008 at 01:05 AM
Kick ass. Better than tweetscan or quotably. Just discovered summize and loving it!
Posted by: kortina | April 16, 2008 at 11:25 PM
ARRR! I've built a flash application using Summize, but apparently, summize does not support crossdomain access by flash!
Could you please add support by adding a crossdomain.xml policy file? Thanks very much!!!!
Posted by: bennie jolink | May 07, 2008 at 03:55 AM
Have you considered a "Google Zeitgeist" historical view of this data? That might show some interesting trends of "what were people interested in...and when".
--Woof!
Posted by: Woof! | May 07, 2008 at 04:21 PM
Hi Bennie/Erik --
We've added cross-domain support as requested. Thanks for the heads up.
Nice work on TwitterFountain! http://www.twitterfountain.nl/
Posted by: Greg Pass | May 08, 2008 at 07:47 AM