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We all know how tagging makes the Web a richer place (by tapping into people’s desire to categorize things and share those categories, ad-hoc though they may be, with everyone else). Tagging brings a bottoms-up order to the Web by making information more searchable and thus easier to find. Now it is time to start tagging the world. The real world.
Enter Tweetag, a brand new way to search Twitter, or ‘browse the Twittosphere’ as they put it. The app, like most Twitter-related applications, is fairly simple: you enter a tag, and Tweetag will show public Twitter messages that contain that particular keyword, but more interestingly also a list of other tags that are related to it.
This allows you to filter down Twitter’s constant stream of 140-or-less-character messages intuitively. Take for instance a query for ‘obama‘: you’ll see all tweets contain the President-elect’s first name, and you can simply filter it down by adding other keywords to the URL or clicking an associated tag, e.g. ‘obama/youtube‘. In addition, Tweetag features tabs which allow you to filter down Twitter messages containing links, questions and @replies.
The Tweetag homepage also displays the 40 most frequent tags, so you can easily get an idea of what’s hot on Twitter in a way similar to what Twitscoop, TwitBuzz, TweetWire and other services are all about. It’s also a great way to track conversations around a given topic, say the earthquake in Indonesia from last weekend.
Twitter recently acquired Summize, whose technology currently powers Twitter Search, and it wouldn’t take them all that much time and effort to build something similar on top of it. Until they do, you can use Tweetag to monitor specific keywords and find out what’s hot on the popular micro-sharing tool in just a few seconds. Tweetag even boasts their own API which allows you to integrate their results into a blog widget or third-party applications.
At first glance, Tweetag is merely a feature, not a business. The creators insist however that have a way to monetize the service as a B2B tool, and that they are currently raising funding to make that happen.
By the way, if you’re not into Twitter, check out this WordPress plugin the guys behind Tweetag have created for tag-based filtering of comments: Commentag.
Tweetag site has a notice which reads : “The service is not available. Please try again later”
I just don’t understand why Twitter doesn’t build in their Summize search and dominate.
Ideas?
This is a copy of TWITAG.com (http://twitag.com/) – including the name. Shameful!
http://search.twitter.com/
Is there a Google trend like app for Tweets ?
Tweetag isn’t a copy of another site. For instance;
twitag.com -> single level tag cloud;
tweetag -> nested tag cloud!
search.twitter.com -> great for search on a given word;
tweetag -> gives the current trends through the tag cloud
There is also the much longer established hashtags.org and twemes.com. Nothing really new here.
Thanks for mentionning us.
However, even though there are tags on our homepage, I don’t think we have much in common with the other services mentionned here.
Ugh. We’re still writing articles about Twitter apps I see…
This isn’t really tagging; it’s word-filtering. Which don’t get me wrong, is very useful, especially with the ability to add multiple filters. It needs RSS feeds or an API to really unlock the value, and it needs a way to search for multiple tags from the beginning, not just via clicking through.
Tagging is different, and valuable because the tweet doesn’t have to contain the exact word for it to be classified under it. With the limited space in a tweet, that’s even more valuable. How many tweets about relationships are actually going to have the word “relationships” in it? The difficulty, of course, is that the shorter length of tweets means a greater quantity (making it more difficult for humans to tag them all) and less context (making it more difficult for machines to tag them all).
Still, it’d be cool to see a service that had actual tagging for tweets. Either by using groups of keywords to identify tweets likely to fall under a tag, and having humans refine, or by using a service like Mechanical Turk to have people look at large batches of tweets and tag them. (Or both, together.)
As twitter continues to grow its userbase, there’s more value in extracting information about high-value subjects (investing, some types of products/services, real estate) and selling it to companies.
This site sounds very promising!
I just do not understand why Twitter create features such as this on their own accord though….
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If you want to search just within your list of followers you can user http://twitterless.com to do that – cuts out a lot of the noise out there and lets you know exactly what your follower base is interested in and saying about a particular topic.
here is something even more powerful based on semantic intelligence and learning. it allows you to perform concepts not just “tags” on keywords. there are no keywords involved and the twit viewer is awesome.
i entered http://www.apple.com in the “mash” query and it returned the concepts and related concepts being discussed on twitter with the twitter network viewer in real time.
twitter needs to pick this up whoever they are…
oops it didnt add the URL for the above:
http://www.mashmeup.com
here is something even more powerful based on semantic intelligence and learning. it allows you to perform concepts not just “tags” on keywords. there are no keywords involved and the twit viewer is awesome.
i entered http://www.apple.com in the “mash” query and it returned the concepts and related concepts being discussed on twitter with the twitter network viewer in real time.
twitter needs to pick this up whoever they are…