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Summize: Search Twitter in realtime

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Summize is excellent. You can set up an RSS feed on your start-up name and then it feeds you Tweets that mention it. It is a great way to connect with early adopters who use your site.

You can do that with our search engine as well, plus you can see a trend of the mentions over the past week. For example:

http://twittersearch.flaptor.com/search/search.do?tz=-3&...

Looks like everyone has one these days :) http://terraminds.com/twitter/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/17/summize-a-sentiment-eng...

Seems like they just went more real-time with their "review" analysis... still a cool concept. And they're funded by betaworks.

http://betaworks.com/work.html

Is this your startup? IIRC summize.com used to be a pretty cool visualization of Amazon reviews... mind me asking what happened to that?

My startup? No, just something I came across two weeks ago. Actually, I was a bit surprised it hadn't been submitted yet.

I visited summize.com before. They used to focus on searching book/movie reviews. Now it is totally different.

Yes, I remember that. It was innovative and very useful actually. The new twitter-summize seems not that impressive, not ground breaking at all, and far less useful. Plus we already have tweetscan.com.

Is twitter search that important? I think the value of twitter is in the instant, not in the history.

The rss feed to subscribe to a search is useful. I want to know when people talk about my company on Twitter, so I subscribe to the search results for some Flaptor-related queries on our Twitter Search. I don't care so much for what was said a week ago, only about the new results.

Summize picks up more results than Tweetscan, at least in my experience. I'm not sure why.

If you are interested in this, you may want to check out our site as well:

http://twist.flaptor.com to see trends

http://twittersearch.flaptor.com for real-time search

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