As bloggers continue to debate the finer points of nothing, yet another entrepreneur has gone out and just built a filtered search engine for Twitter. A couple of days ago Twitority launched (although it appears to be down now). Today, it’s Twithority, by the same guys at Tsavo that created Daymix.
Twithority is notably faster in returning results, and it looks farther back (1,000 results v. 50). It ranks results by rank (highest ranking users first) and time (most recent first) by the top 10,000 Twitter users.
Some people will continue to hate the debate over Twitter authority, but ultimately the market will decide if there’s demand for this kind of product.
This website should be renamed “twittercrunch”
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I see a lot marketing folks using/taking advantage of this.
URL is already taken -.-
Wow. Another one to add to the mix. I’d only just got round to blogging about Twitority!
See here for more on that – http://bit.ly/2E2gdu
Mike, you know, I really wish that TC got rid of the really time-waster stories. I don’t have all day to follow tech news. *sigh*
Time for everyone to go out and “game” twitter to get their authority up …. lets be honest … we could all have thousands of followers by tomorrow if we wanted them … most people auto-follow … let the following begin ! *lol*
perhaps twitter should create a net followers number to decrease people’s incentive to follow anyone except those they find interesting.
Could you imagine choosing the next President of the USA based on the greatest following/followers ratio? Wait, 4 years from now is a long time in tech.
Now that seems like a much more powerful indicator for Twithority to use … Im sure the API provides access to both numbers … a tiny bit of math and they are there !
or a digg-like feature where people can tag twits of interest and those with the most tags bubble to the top. There are buttloads of worthless twits to rise above and the number of followers isn’t always a good filter of the quality of each twit.
Like RT (a RT button) … I love that idea ! … it seems like it would be very powerful !
Should we build it?
You could call it Twigg
After all the Twitter posts on TC in the last few days, I decided to finally join.
I know about the service and all but surprisingly a few of my friends are embedded in the service and I am actually having fun with Twitterrific.
I realized that maybe why M.A. is writing about Twitter so much is because it is a cross between blogging and RSS… M.A. is one of the top bloggers on the web, so why wouldn’t he be excited about Twitter news?
I have used the opportunity to see how our business can utilize Twitter for our licensees and have already started to suggest that it will make a great companion for supportive digital content distribution for bands and concert tours.
After last week’s Twitter blogging snafu, expect to see a ton of API hooked search tools from guys looking for the magic exit lol.
I almost forgot the Twitter tag: http://twitter.com/retailzip
[groaning] Oh Joy, another one. And they’ll NEVER run out of names..
twitority
twithority
Twittority
TwittThority
TwitterSorority
Yes, and I can’t wait for “Twoogle”.
reminds me of:
Excite
Hotbot
Lycos
(and 100 others)
before Google got it right *lol*
Someone is going to figure out how to mine twitter one of these days !
the site is down, too much traffic perhpas!
where you from?
http://groups.im/
Some people seem to simply rush to create/develop something simply because it’s currently in the news, but their product may not actually be that good, and may lack an actual business model that can generate actual revenue.
Umm, i feel sleepy already. Please nudge me and wake me up when you post something news worth, other than Twittorships…!
What’s wrong with anyone using their own time to create apps because they see it in the news or blogs? I’m all for it. If you have the time, have a go. Not everything needs to have a business model.
I think Twiiter is now affecting the whole internet community and a lot of services just created to support it. It is a great on indeed. T
Stop the stupidity.
Enough of stupid twitter articles. One was enough. Who cares about yet another search function for twitter. This was like when TC last has a mancrush on Facebook.
How about some of the good investigative journalism like at the Bittorrent down round?
Or at least write about good companies. These are not companies. Hell, these are not even products. These are product features.
It is not worth the real estate on my screen.
Thank You!
Finally someone agrees with my distaste for these ridiculous Twitter related articles. I wrote about my frustrations with Tech Crunch regarding this post on my blog here: http://eliteete...ech-blogs-2008/
Nop this is not better then twitter search.
http://twitter.com/rizzy81
PLEASE STOP calling this “Authority”!!! I can have 50,000 followers and talk tweet about “Leg Cramps”… it doesn’t make me a frickin Doctor! Call this what it really is…
Sorting by Number of Followers
Twitter may be getting hard to follow for Twelebrities, but not everyone has 28,000+ followers. So really, there are like 10 people that actually care about sorting tweets by number of followers. I know how to stop the fail whale, stop hitting the Twitter API 50,000 times every 0.01 second with stupid applications.
this post (and the previous ones about this non-issue) shows how dangerous can be the effects of having Loic Lemiur around and making crappy feature suggestions (I love the silence of the Twitter team about this one, btw).
Michael, you start this post by saying “As bloggers continue to debate…”. Seriously, I don’t see other bloggers (other than you, Loic and the usual suspects, which is not a great sample of the blogosphere) talking about this — what I do see is hundreds of comments saying how retard the idea is.
Our first search on http:// twithority.com was quick, and satisfying.
Plenty of interesting people, comments, links and knowledge.
I’m disappointed, my test searches bring 0 results and I know there are quiet some results for them -.-
At first Twitority and now Twithority, thats great. Also check out Top Twitter Tools to Check Out in 2009 @ http://www.soci...ter-tools-2009/
Thanks.
Fun to hear about these new tools. No matter who makes them, they’ll surely evolve and continue to find footholds. Quite a few people will want to use them to discover content and news and people that really matter.
Guys
Looks like we have networking, iphone and twitter overkill on Techcrunch.
I would love to see some coverage of mobile remittances, payments and banking innovation as well as some stuff on clean energy and how mobile and net technologies can get together with the clean energy industry to create new properties. I see nothing on cloud computing at all. No one is thinking new media anymore or new audiences. We are all getting swept along by what seems nice to do and beyond a point, it begins to look narcissitic.
Much as I love social networking-and it is a key area I work in- there is a larger world beyond facebook and twitter(no disrespect) and even apple. Can we know and debate about what that larger world does?
Very interesting comments Kaustuv – http://gigaom.com covers the cloud and clean tech quite a bit, would be interesting to see more on your suggestions such as banking innovation, payments etc. Checking out your blog now.
Hi
Good to hear from you. I am already blogging on clean energy at earthbiz.wordpress.com and looking at working with NUS to incubate clean energy ideas. Always happy to see more material and learn and of course, network.
Cheers.
What Mike offering is simple: “Twittdicatory”
Thats Useful. Its very difficult to follow all the twitterz. Now we can use it to look at useful twits.
You can Twit your pics @ TwitPic
This is interesting.
http://io9.com/...-for-meth-bombs
I can’t understand the whole concept
to write articles entitled “Second Authority-Based Twitter Search Engine Launches: Twithority” is what gets you out of bed in the morning?
am wondering why they changed their name – could it be because they were daft enough not to register their twitter account name before they decided to launch the service?
although i tend to think twithority – is more of a mouthful than twitority – how about tweethority – ah no that seems to be taken too.
the quick and the dead – i guess.
Another ‘authority’ service?? You serious? Get a fucking clue that Twitter has nothing to do with ‘authority’. Individuals have their own value, regardless of how many followers they have. Get over the god damn number Loic and whoever else that wanted this.
yawn. they have the same picture that they posted on Daymix. what gives
Experimenting a different way to calculate Twitter Authority :
http://www.deni...orithm-proposal
I think Twiiter is now affecting the whole internet community and a lot of services just created to support it. It is a great on indeed. T