Topsy Becomes Definitive Twitter Search Engine. Social search and analytics provider Topsy announced that users can now search its index for every single tweet ever published since Twitter’s inception in 2006. This capability is very useful and likely makes Topsy an acquisition target (probably by Twitter). According to the site, there are now more than 540 billion tweets in its index. Topsy has become a social analytics service in addition to being a “social search engine.” Topsy has the added distinction of being essentially the lone survivor among a group of “real-time” search sites that emerged in 2008 – 2010, including Collecta, OneRiot, Crowdeye, Tweetmeme and Scoopler.
At the time, Google, Yahoo and Bing appropriated or adopted real-time search (for a time) essentially killing these startups with the exception of Topsy. OneRiot was sold to WalMart Labs and the others basically shut down. Related Topics: Channel: Social | Search Engines: Real Time Search | Search Engines: Social Search Engines | Top News. Twitter's Verified Users: How They All Connect [GRAPHIC] Twitonomy: Twitter #analytics and much more... Map of StephaneSuisse.
TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world. Twitter's new 'embedded on these websites' feature helps users discover the story behind a tweet. Twitter has begun trialling new features that give users a way to learn more about the tweets that they read. As noted by security expert Mikko Hypponen, Twitter has enabled a new "Embedded on these websites" notice below popular tweets on the web which lists articles that feature it. Users are invited to click through and discover the story behind the original post. It's one step towards the "DVR mode" that Costolo envisioned Last week, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo outlined plans to help users cut through the noise of Twitter during events without losing the real-time feel of the conversation.
By listing website links alongside Twitter content, the company is making good on its promise to help users track moments. Twitter + GNIP. Mapping Travel, Languages & Mobile OS Usage with Twitter Data. Some of the most compelling use cases we’ve seen for analyzing Twitter data involve geolocation.
From NGO’s looking at geotagged Tweets to help deploy resources after disasters, to brands paying attention to where their fans are (or their disgruntled customers) to help drive engagement and marketing strategies, location adds key value to Tweet content. We’ve been fascinated by these use cases and have wondered what else could be done with this data. A couple months ago our Data Science team set out to explore these questions, and to create some resources at the same time that would help others study and make use of geotagged Tweets.
We brought in the team at MapBox – including data artist Eric Fischer – to help us dig into the data and visualize what we found in fast, fully navigable geotagged Twitter maps that would let us and our readers really explore this data in depth. Locals and Tourists (Round 2) Where do people tweet relative to where they live? Device Usage Patterns English only. Sign in - Twitter Ads. Tweetmap - Visualising live, global tweets. Tweetping. Video - Twitter mood map. Powerful Tracking for Hashtags | Hashtracking.com. Brazil becomes 2nd country on Twitter, Japan 3rd — Netherlands most active country. Geolocation analysis of Twitter accounts by Semiocast Paris, France — January, 31st 2012 — Semiocast's latest studies reveals a new order in top countries on Twitter.
The U.S. still top at the 1st place on Twitter in terms of accounts with 107.7 million accounts. Brazil is now the second country with 33.3 million accounts, surpassing Japan now third at 29.9 million. Semiocast has analyzed 383 million of Twitter user profiles created before January 1st 2012. Drawing from its experience with previous studies, Semiocast used its proprietary platform, databases and tools to process user profiles in order to determine the location of each user using all available information (free-form location declared in user profile, time zone, language used to post tweets and GPS coordinates for the very few concerned tweets). With 107.7M accounts created before January 1st, 2012, the United States now merely represent 28,1% of all Twitter users. Users from the Netherlands most active About Semiocast.
The Feeling of a Nation (launched)