The implementation of Twitter Search has enabled users to leverage data captured by Twitter in more ways than we can imagine. You can do queries on keywords, get RSS feeds to track discussions and much more, but where Twitter Search falls short is in real-time Twitter tracking. Enter Jazzy Chad (@jazzychad) and Tweet Grid.
Tweet Grid allows you to “create a Twitter Search dashboard that updates in real time.”
You’ve seen things like this before with constantly-streaming Twitter election coverage, but Twitter hasn’t made that functionality available to users outside of that project. Jazzy Chad knew that wasn’t available and saw an opportunity to bring that functionality to users everywhere.
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Though keyword tracking via IM was one of Twitter’s most popular features back when it was available, there haven’t been many good solutions for staying on top of microblogging keyword searches lately, unless you’re pulling RSS feeds based on Twitter Search queries. Dewald Pretorius, creator of TweetLater, decided that he’s tired of waiting for track to come back to Twitter and has developed his own version of the service as an added feature inside TweetLater.
Rob is one of the founders of Microblink. His interests include how people are using microblogs and the community growing around them.
Mike writes and edits for Microblink day-in and day-out. He is known as the marketing guy and handles most of the microblogging accounts.
Mark writes development-oriented posts as well as news items. He's not afraid to dive headfirst into technical topics for the sake of the team.