Twingly Performs Simultaneous Searches Of Multiple Microblogs
Alongside blogging, the microblogging universe has gained an increased popularity among Internet users. For the first time, Twingly provides a search service for six microblogging platforms: Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Bleeper, Bloggy and Pownce. The developers defined the search service as being the first federated microblog search because their goal is to index all existing microblogging services. Twingly also offers a search engine for blogs that serves over 25 million search results through an individual API.
The Twingly microblog search service comes with many features. In the first place, the user is able to simultaneously perform custom searches of all six platforms mentioned earlier, such as the searching of the posts written by a specific user, of the microblog posts sent to a user, of the posts newer than a specified date and more.
Through RSS or email alerts the user will be informed in real time about the replies, the comments or the reposting of a certain topic, while the hash tags (#tag) and replies (@name) are also searchable. The search results can be integrated into an existing blog based on a JavaScript widget.
In this phase of the Twingly Microblog Search service, the real time search is not available (the user should notice a delay of at least five minutes), but in the future is expected from this service to offer a real conversational search.
The immediate advantage of this federate microblog search is represented by the fact that users are allowed to perform the checking of a topic status on multiple microblogs from a single place with the help of an unified search.
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