tweefind, a rank-based twitter search engine
DESCRIPTION
Tweefind lets you search Twitter and displays results ordered according to a rank assigned to users. This rank (Tweerank) depends on how popular/relevant/active those users are on Twitter. The higher this rank is, the more authority a user has. The Tweerank is assigned by an algorithm / spider working 24/7 and changes dinamically depending on how a user uses Twitter.TRANSCRIPT
www.tweefind.com
A Twitter Search Engine by User Rank
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Tweefind - The Market Problem
It’s time to re-think search sources: not only websites/blogs tons of useful news shared on Twitter,
Friendfeed etc. information, images, videos shared on Facebook
etc. people talk and chat about topics that can
become trends need a way to assign a “rank” to social
networks’ users need a way to aggregate all this information
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Tweefind - The Market Problem
Three Types of Search Search 1.0
Focused on pages and content within them very basic concept
Search 2.0 Focused on pages, content, links, authority of linking
sites pagerank
Search 3.0 Relevance is determined by content, context and
relevance for your network people share content
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Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
Twitter’s growth is explosive 19M users 267% growth on
quarter basis 1250% growth
on annual basis
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Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
Twitter is a busy and noisy place lots of users lots of spam lots of casual users lots of personal and not relevant content
Potential response need a way to take the good content out of the noise need a way to give that content a “value” and display
the most valuable only
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Tweefind - Value Proposition
Tweefind is a twitter search engine scans the popular micro-blogging service displays results ordered by user rank displays related searches coming from other sources
Google, Bing Techcrunch, Mashable, NYT, Friendfeed... Youtube video (the most popular) Highest ranked twitter users
takes links out from the tweets and shows the most re-tweeted (re-tweet means endorsement)
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Tweefind – The Solution
Tweerank is a measure of how popular/important a Twitter user is works 24/7 to assign a rank to each Twitter user it changes daily over 4M users ranked so far takes into account over 20 parameters, like
# followers # following # of followers / #of following # of tweets # of RT he/she receives # of replies # of distinct users who reply # of distinct users who retweet # of RT he/she makes # of links the user shares .....
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Tweefind – Main interface 1/2
Example: search for “iphone”
Main results from Twitterordered by “user rank”
Results from Friendfeed, New York Times, Techcrunch, Mashable, etc.
Highest-ranked Twitter users for the keyword “iphone” (from Tweepfind.com)
Most searched keywords
Most re-tweeted news for “iphone”
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Tweefind – Main interface 2/2
Example: search for “iphone”Buttons to switch to Google/Bingresults
Results coming from the search engine Bing
Similar and relevant search terms
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Tweefind – Relevant Link Extraction
Example: search for “iphone”
Tweefind extracts links contained in the tweets displayed in the first page Searches Tweetmeme for
those links Displays the three most-
retweeted on the sidebar
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Tweefind – Plugins and Widgets
Blog/Website widget
Firefox/IE search plugin
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Tweefind – Benefits
Filters the good content coming from highest ranked users
Remove noise and useless tweets from search results
Lots of relevant and related search results coming from different sources, all together
Very useful to find new great and valuable Twitter users to follow
One-Stop-Shop for search from multiple different sources
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Tweefind – Contacts
http://www.tweefind.com
http://twitter.com/tweefind