트위터 검색엔진 30가지 총정리 (30 Twitter Search Alternatives & Tools)

Twitter search desktop tools

• Yahoo Sideline – Adode Air based standalone Twitter search client.
• Tweetdeck – Adobe Air based standalone Twitter client with Twitter search support built in.
• Seesmic – Both Adobe Air client and web app. You can search for your keyword on a regular basis automatically. They don’t have a privacy policy though so be careful with your data.
• Pluggio (formerly Tweetminer) – Professional web based Twitter client with advanced Twitter search capabilities. They call it “search and browse”.

Twitter search alternatives

• Topsy – Full fledged Twitter search engine as well as popular tweets and links interface. Good results and clean usable interface.
• CrowdEye – A bit cluttered but very powerful Twitter search engine
• Backtweets – Similar to Topsy and Tweetmeme but focsuing on finding the tweets for a particular page or site.
• Social Mention – Searching Twitter and beyond in real time but a bit slow sometimes though. Many advanced search options but often poor quality resuklts despite this.
• Collecta – Search messages, photos, videos etc. on and beyond Twitter
• OneRiot – Searches for currently popular tweets for a given keywords as well as showing latest tweets.
• Tweetmi – A simple Twitter search and analysis tool for the latest tweets.

What’s popular on Twitter

• Tweetmeme – Most retweeted links. Also check out Topsy and Backtweets (mentioned above in the search category).
• Favstar – Most favorited tweets.
• Tweetply – Most replied to tweets.
• Trendistic – Search popular topics and Twitter trends right now and in the past.
• Tweetvolume – Compare the sheer search volume for up to three keywords. Great for keyword research.
• Twopular – This tool shows a portal like overview of popular terms and hashtags on Twitter right now as well as in the past.
• Trendsmap – Local Twitter trends mash up on a map. Very good for a quick overview.
• Oneforty – Most popular Twitter apps.
• Hashtags.org – Trending topics by so called #hashtags users add to their tweets.

Twitter user search

• Twerp Scan – Search and manage your followers. Very useful tool.
• My Tweeple – Search your followers on the basis on several criteria like “most followers”.
• Friend or Follow – Find out who does not follow you back on Twitter.
• Doesfollow – Find out whether a given user is following you.
• Tweet Reach – This excellent tools lets you find out who your real friends are, at least recently. It shows the exposure they provide you.
• MyTwitterCloud – Find users from your area and sharing your interests.

Twitter search hacks and other tools

• Power Twitter – A Firefox/Safari/Chrome add on that enhances your Twitter Web interface. Among others you can search in your tweets or of any user.
• Subscribe to your search query via RSS.
• Add Twitter search to Google via Greasemonkey.
• Add Twitter search to the Firefox search box.
• Google custom search engine searching Twitter.com with often surprisingly relevant results
• TweetBeep – Like Google Alerts but for Twitter.