OneRiot is silly excited to announce our latest addition - a new twist on Twitter search. Currently in alpha, OneRiot Twitter Search takes a different approach to sifting through the world’s favorite microblogging site.
How it Works //
When people share stuff on Twitter, they often include links to the content they’re talking about. Most of the time, these links are shortened into tinyurls or bit.ly links, like this:
That post then becomes searchable via Twitter’s own search engine, which groups tweets by common words. So, were I to search for Guantanamo on Twitter, I’d see a bunch of related tweets in a list:
…which is awesome //
because I get to see what my fellow Twitterers have recently been saying about Guantanamo. But what if I wanted to see the conversation happening around the specific link that I had shared, or the uninterrupted passing of that link from tweet to tweet? Yesterday I would have had to do some digging by expanding those shortened links then searching for them, but today I can find it at OneRiot… woot!
Check out this search for “Guantanamo” on OneRiot. If you click on the downward facing arrow underneath each result, you’ll find the tweets related to that result, like this:
That’s the conversation //
that is forming around that specific link, all thanks to the lucky “First Finder” who shared it. From here, searchers can join the conversation, retweet the link, reply to fellow Twitterers - or just find out what the fuss is about by following the link.
There are lots of interesting uses for this, which is one of the reasons we’re opening the site up to everybody before we officially incorporate it into our existing search engine. We’re anxious to hear your feedback, so head over here, play around, and don’t ignore that big black button on your right.
And a friendly heads up to developers - we have an API. If you want it, ask Tobias.
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