Twitscoop, a real-time visualization tool that lets you see hot trends and buzz on Twitter, is getting a makeover and adding several useful features that may help you “mine the thought stream.” These features will officially roll out at 8 AM PST. Twitscoop’s algorithm identifies tags and keywords in the Twitter stream and then ranks them by how frequently they appear versus normal usage. Twitscoop detects growing trends in real-time, identifies breaking news and then monitors specific keywords along with graphs that display the activity for any given word on twitter. The results are also displayed in a “Tag Cloud,” where the hotter tags are presented in a bigger front.
Besides showing the trending topics on Twitter, Twitscoop, which provides a service similar to Tweetag, Tweetmeme, and Twitturly, also lets you search Twitter messages for trending topics. Twitscoop is becoming a full-fledged Twitter service, adding oAuth to let you sign in with your Twitter account and tweet from the site without leaving the page. Additionally, you will be able shorten urls and tweet searches from the site.
The new additions to Twitscoop’s roster of features include a new and improved real-time tracking code and a redesign of the user interface. The right side of Twitscoop’s homepage displays in real-time the words which are “buzzing” right now on Twitter. This tag cloud is updated automatically, with tags continuously appearing, growing, shrinking and finally vanishing. When you hover over a tag, a popup window will appear, displaying the latest related tweets about the tag. If you click on the tag, you open up a search tab within the site which will display all the related tweets along with a custom graph showing the tags’ activity over the past few hours or days. The graph is an interesting feature that isn’t available on most of Twitscoop’s competitors and helps you understand the timeline of a trending topic.
On the left side of the homepage, Twitscoop shows general “trends” detected on Twitter. Clicking on any hot trend will open a tab with a snapshot of the corresponding search results by time frame, from 6 hours to 1 day to 3 days. I’m a fan of the way Twitscoop saves multiple searches in different tabs within the site. It makes it very easy to jump from one search to another without having to conduct the search over again.
Unlike competitor Tweetmeme, which measures trends and hot topics by links and is also adding innovative features, Twitscoop measure trends by keyword. Tweetag, another tag-based search engine for Twitter that also uses a tag cloud to show results, is also useful but doesn’t include the interactive graphs and in-depth features of Twitscoop. Twitter, which acquired Summize, whose technology currently powers Twitter Search, also features trending topics but doesn’t go into the same depth as Twitscoop either.
Twitscoop has lofty ambitions—the site hopes to not only be a go-to application to measure trends and buzz on Twitter, but also wants to be a major Twitter client, albeit a Web-based one. This field is packed with many worthy competitors including Seesmic Desktop, Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Twitterific, and Nambu. Although it’s doubtful that Twitscoop will be able to take a large piece of the Twitter client pie, the site provides a useful way to find out what’s happening on Twitter that’s buzzworthy in real-time.
I wish you could click the graph to see tweets that were made during that specific time frame.
Cool yet another twitter related post. guess what, i am liking it. So i can insert my link to virtually acquire twitter on…http://www.webmilker.com/twittercom/
First thing on a Monday? WTF? Someone needs and ass kicking if this is the best that can be done first thing in the morning.
Please start pumping facebook again. You may have overdone that as well but at least facebook did something.
Oh great, another Twitter trend site – like there aren’t a million others.
Techcrunch – do you ever listen to your visitors? We’re bored of hearing about Twitter.
Everyone, we need to leave Techcrunch. They are playing with our heads with this twitter stuff and unless we leave the site and they lose their marketing dollars – they will not learn. This is my last day on Techcrunch.
Goodbye Techcrunch – one less visitor. Join me in saying Goodbye to Techcrunch.
Great, another tweet on techcrunch. Rename techcrunch.com to blog.twitter.com please!
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Whatever, I’m beginning to like twitter anywayz..
I’m done too. Bye TwitterCrunch.
If you want to try multimedia tweets : audio video podcasts mp3 Flickr photos MySpace player …
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Well, the Techcrunch Effect has hit again – Twitscoop.com website is down!!
TechCrunch claims to not be a subsidiary of Twitter yet they’re one of the only blogs not to cover the Nielson report, showing Twitter’s incredibly low levels of retention. Really, what ever happened to journalism?
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@Mike: we’re not down, we’re rolling down the new site.
Expect us to be back at c. 10am PST.
Hey Twitscoop,
What terrible timing to be rolling out your new site when you have thousands of Techcrunch readers going to your site from reading this article. You have only 1 shot at getting visitors to your site.
I’d highly suggest that you perform site maintenance late at night where the traffic is low.
Best regards and good luck.
Let them speak about Twitter. .. no problem for me.
I’m new to Twitter and I should give a try to this feature. Thanks for update. Noah Lieske
I don’t use Twitter, but don’t care if Techcrunch talk about it either
I actually like this site a lot.
Off topic, but does anybody know why the bit.ly click counter is so off.
It took quite some time, but I have finally started to find value in twitter. It’s short messages, sent and delivered in near-realtime with less of the mechanical feel of RSS. It’s great…but it won’t last.
Twitter as a tool, WILL grow beyond Twitter the company. It’s quickly becoming a communication mechanism that won’t be controlled or owned by any one entity. The Twitter protocol, while not formalized, will eventually evolve in the way email did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
If Twitter has really been offered anywhere between $500M – $700M dollars, they are foolish not to sell.
The real-time tag cloud is pretty slick. Good job on the redesign.
Regarding the saved-searches feature: we’ve developed a Web search engine that also lets you save searches (or queries, as we call them). Saved queries are listed in a left panel rather than as tabs, so there can be many of them (up to 200 at the moment). We store them in Flash Player local storage (noflail.com is a Flex application).
Speaking of twitter I just signed up for a new account yesterday and followed some people, and low and behold my account is now suspended 12 hours later. WTF I wrote thier contact email for suspensions and I recieved an automated response. I thought I would post it here. I did not violate anything heck I did not have time to do squat. I think twitter is Suspension trigger happy.
Please visit your own profile page to make sure you’re actually suspended and not viewing another person’s suspended profile page– many people think they are suspended when they aren’t. You’ll know you’re suspended if you log in and see a red notice announcing your suspension on your account.
This is an automated response to share reasons why Twitter suspends accounts for investigation. If you’re contesting suspension, please reply to this email and include the information requested at bottom if you haven’t already.
Twitter primarily suspends accounts for Terms of Service violations or spam investigation. (Please visit your own profile page to make sure you’re actually suspended and not viewing someone else’s suspended profile page.) If you are suspended, it’s most likely for one or more of these reasons::
User Abuse
* a large number of people block the profile or write in with spam complaints
* aggressive following
* imbalanced ratio: the number of followers is small compared to number of people following
* misuse of the reply feature
* updates consist of duplicate links and/or text
* updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates
* updates consist of updates poached from others’ timelines, passed off as one’s own
Technical Abuse
* updates consist of links pointing to phishing sites, malware, or other harmful material
* a large number of accounts is created in a short amount of time
* an account is identified as belonging to a spam cluster
When this happens, we suspend the account for investigation and hide the contents from the public view in order to remove the cause of complaint. Unless we’ve advised you otherwise, your account may be suspended for a minimum of 30 days while we investigate. Accounts in violation of the Twitter Rules or Terms will be permanently suspended.
It’s important to us that the Twitter community receives only the content they’d like to receive. While we do welcome feed-based accounts, we discourage aggressive following and other tactics that will alarm people.
If you feel you’ve been suspended in error, please reply to this email with a short explanation if you haven’t already, and don’t forget to include your user name. We will do our best to get back to you within 30 days.
Thanks,
Twitter Support
i hate twitter its so pointless
twitter i thought would have been good but i hate it now its just a big advertising filled service and i really dont see anything good about twitter myself anymore a bunch of my co-workers have deleted their twitter accounts and i just deleted mine today
Thanks for tour citation Leena
Your sooooooo right. Seriously guys STOP IT!!!
Well, stop shouting at TC for writing about Twitter. They are doing a good job and they are writing about a winning company. But, I would agree that TC should do more analysis on twitter applications before writing about them. They’ve written about few extremely useful twitter apps which am totally addicted to — like http://www.boilingpage.com, the real-time search engine that shows the hottest pages on the web, http://www.tweetbery.com, http://www.twiturly.com etc. Thanks to TC for covering such great apps.
twitter is going no where its a lame shitty service emma