Jul 15, 2008
Summize becomes Twitter Search
Twitter has announced that it has acquired Summize and promptly launched its own search engine found here.
I’ve been using Summize for a couple of weeks ago now and find it incredibly useful for keeping tabs on what people are saying about my clients.
Top tip for PRs: do a search for all your clients, create an RSS feed out of the results and put it through your reader! You’ll now when your client’s site goes down before they do!
[...] Twitter recently picked up Summize and swiftly turned it into Twitter Search that allows people to search through every Tweet up to the second. Whilst this is nowhere near as extensive as a Google Search, the advantage of Twitter Search is that it’s literally up-to-the-second. By the time Google’s spiders pick up the news my interest has gone, I want to know what the score is right now and fortunately 140 characters is enough to satisfy my intrigue. [...]