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Tweemp - Awesome Twitter Search Engine

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And how is this better than twitter's search?

http://search.twitter.com/

Hi Kyle-

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My apologies. For some reason I thought I had upvoted the comment as well.

Clicking two of their own examples don't bring up anything. Not so awesome:

http://tweemp.com/Euro-Zone-Nations-Offer-40-Billion.html

http://tweemp.com/Haitians-leave-tent-cities-for-camp.html

Tried searching for something with a bunch of oldish results in search.twitter.com and got "no results"

search.twitter.com has a dataset that is no older then two weeks.

Ah, just realized my comment was far from clear; I meant that I searched search.twitter.com for a term, it yielded the expected results, then searched the same term on this product and got "no results"

Looks buggy, tried several words, the last was "studio" - getting 'Page not found'

Icerocket is much better. Most of the results at tweemp return loads of spam accounts, not real human beings.

I type "sex" and hit Enter.. And I get "Page 404 - Not Found"... How awesome is that?

Now it is showing "Page not found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following:

If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.

- Click the Back button in your browser to try another link. - Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the Internet. HTTP 404 - File not found "

I did not have any luck with it finding my name 'hockeybias'.

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