Twingly Channels let you track memes around any topic
Swedish start-up Twingly is launching channels tomorrow that find the most socially relevant news around any topic.
Twingly’s channels are a more sophisticated kind of real-time search or meme tracker that will pull up recently published items on a topic and filter them by how much they’ve been commented on or shared. It pulls links and comments from Twitter, and the company plans to add data from social bookmarking services Digg and Delicious later. (The first… Continue Reading
Twingly launches microblog search — Twitter search with a sprinkle of Jaiku and a dash of Identi.ca
Blog search tool Twingly’s new microblog search, as a concept, makes a lot of sense. You enter a keyword in one search box and get results from services like Twitter, Jaiku and Identi.ca. But in practice there’s a problem — and it’s not Twingly’s problem — it’s every service besides Twitter’s problem: Twitter overwhelms the results.
You see, Twitter is much more popular than any of the other services being indexed, so if I do a… Continue Reading