Personal Search for Your Twitter Contacts
Personal search for your Twitter network.
Search is has been a big topic of discussion in 2009, and in 2010 is almost assuredly going to be a bigger deal as users look for ways to distill the internet’s wealth of information to more personal discoveries. Recently, with the surge of social networking, search has become an even more contested topic because the content created by the millions of users worldwide is not just prolific, but is being done daily. Real time search through your networks and contacts postings can be useful to discover what the pulse of your network really is. Unfortunately small steps have been made in this area, and as much as Search.Twitter.com is used, it’s still not giving you a personal search, but rather having you search the entire Twitter network.
One of the few personal Twitter searches is flocking.me. If you’ve got several hundred or several thousand friends in your network, you can erase the noise and focus on only the groups you want, for specific information. This is ideal if your’e looking for trends, industry news, or just looking to see what topics your friends think are hot button issues that you’d like to join in on. An interesting addition to this app is the ability to search your tweets via an interactive map. The map shows the location of the Tweeters and gives you a better understanding of the scope and range of your conversations as you span the globe seeing your search information pop up.
An added bonus is the ability to update your status straight from the site. Much like the Twitter homepage of old, you’ll need to refresh the page to see any of the updates on your profile or those that you’ve done a search for. While the concept is nice, I’m not sure how portable this application is. Mobility is key as we are all on the goal, so I’d like to see this concept put into a mobile app. There are a few out there that offer similar functionality, but nothing that I’ve seen with personal search like flocking.me.
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