Posted on July 15, 2008
Twitter Search - Connecting the Connected
BY JAMES CLARK
Nothing like a fresh $15 million in funding to drive some acquisitions.
Twitter announce today that they have acquired Twitter search application Summize, (you'll notice the Summize.com link redirects to search.twitter.com).
The juice is in the Advance Twitter Search, where you can find Tweets based on: Words, People, Places, Dates, Attitudes and Posts Containing Links.
For anyone tracking reputation monitoring on Twitter knows an Advanced Search functionality is critical to having any kind of success in being able to respond quickly and maintain a open and current dialogue. Too much leads to communication paralysis.
Connecting Connected People
The coolest function that Twitter brings on the integration of Summize is the ability to search Places.
Now this is a real community builder function that goes beyond online communities.
Here's a view into all Twits being posted about Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain No Reservation show from New York City.
With the idea of organizations pushing into real community interaction, great ideas start percolating about what can be done by using online communities to create real offline relationships, or in-depth niche online communities.
Summize is a great search tool, and it will be a much needed addition to Twitter's clunky user interface. For the amount of use and buzz Twitter is getting, it seems quite primitive in so many aspects. This is solid search functionality is a good start.
To be very true, they(twitter) hide it somewhere and I couldn't find it from their site. After reading this article I tried it and amazingly I got that. That is super cool think which expands twitter search options. I am feeling lucky since I got this and have searched a lot of useful stuff which was difficult to find in an ordinary way.
Perhaps that is the top benefit by the twitter which other sites and companies can get. For me, twitter is not as fruitful as it is for others but I am reading a lot of stuff in these days to determine that how twitter can be a beneficial media for me. Thanks for the tip.