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COOL TOOLS FOR YOUR DIGITAL DELIGHT: TWITTER EDITION
The latest in new Twitter trends and apps
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As Twitter continues to make headlines, developers have been leveraging its open API to introduce a quickly growing number of innovative tools. Here we share some of the most forward-thinking developments in the Twitterverse.
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Twitter Search Upgrade:
Many Twitter devotees argue that Twitter's search function can be faster and more relevant than any other search engine out there. While it is a bit limited in that it only contains tweet indexing, this is likely to change soon: It has been reported that Twitter's search feature will soon begin to crawl links included in tweets - a major development, as so many Twitter users share links in their tweets - and will also allow Twitter to compete with other search engines, even Google, thanks to its real-time content delivery. Another rumored development is a reputation ranking system for tweets; other search platforms, such as Tweefind, are also developing this useful Twitter tool, organizing search by user rank - an alternative, yet equally effective, way to search.
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Stweet:
Many mobile apps already use GPS technology to broadcast a user's location, but this fun mashup combines the geolocative voyeurism of Google Street View with Twitter to show streets where tweets are posted. Stweet overlays tweets on Google Street View images, providing a precise, real-time visual accompaniment to the microblogging service.
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Twitscoop:
Another real-time visualization tool, this platform allows users to explore the most current hot trends and buzz on Twitter by identifying breaking news, monitoring keywords, and creating graphs to display activity for any given word on the site. Some of its newest features include tag ranking, including an automatically updated tag cloud on the homepage, keeping Twitter fanatics constantly informed as to what's going on in the Twitterverse.
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