Apr

Search Twitter better ( Don’t wait for Google ) - Top 10 apps that will help you

There are no end to rumors and speculations, Google buying Twitter - not buying Twitter - Google collaborating with Twitter, and all sorts of things. We might hear the real news soon, but until then here are top 10 apps for Twitter that willl help you search Twitter in all possible ways, left and right. So why wait for Google ?

1. BackTweets – Find who’s tweeting your website

This app finds all the people tweeting/sharing your website links. Just give in your site url and it scans out all the tinyurls/bitlys (short urls) that points to the URL and displays them for you. Handy if you want to know how popular your site is, especially when not everyone will (@reply) you for the links they share from your site.

2. Twitter Friend Lookup – Find your friends on Twitter

This site will search Twitter for your friends whose email ID you know. Just give the entire list of email IDs and it will email back to you the IDs of those people who are registered on Twitter with those email IDs.

3. Tweep Search – Find and scan friends with their Bios

On giving your profile name, this app lists down all your friends and followers with their bio’s highlighted. Very good when you want to search for particular guys like “designers” from your friends list. There are more than 1 million bios indexed so far, which is impressive.

4. TwiSpot – Find what’s hot and trending on Twitter

Twispot is an app that will give you live updates on the trending and hot topics on Twitter. The good thing is that it has Tweets for categories. Like design, entertainment. It pulls off interesting tweets from the various popular categories.

An application that will list out the popular Tweets, users, and re-tweeted users in the last 24 hours, last week, one month and beyond. Great tool if you want to keep track of the popular stuff on Twitter.

6. Twitturls – Find out what is shared most on Twitter

Twitturls is an application that will list down the most popular URLs being shared on Twitter right now. The most popular websites and the stories being shared from them.

7. Twubble – Find out interesting folks to follow

If you are looking to follow more interesting folks to follow, then this is the tool. Recommends you interesting tweeps based on your recent activity.

8. Top News Trends – See who’s tweeting on Google Trends

A good concept done well. This tool will combine the Google trends data with Tweets. That is it will find out the hot trends data from Google and lists down who’s tweeting about it on Twitter. Cool.

9. Twitter Job Search

A simple application that will search Twitter for job vacancies posted on a particular topic. Very effective for job hunters as these days, top companies post vacancies on Twitter which has a much better response that traditional methods.

10. Geo Follow - Search TweepS profiles in your locality

Geo Follow is an app that will help you find twitter users in your locality based on the local information like Zip and Country code. Perfect tool if you want to organize a tweetup !