This is it! Today we’re launching Twingly Microblog Search.
We’ve been microblogging for a couple of years now at Twingly. Mostly at Jaiku because it’s been the service of choice for new-media-people here in Sweden but we have our own Twitter and since Twitter is becoming bigger and bigger here in Sweden, we’ve been more active there lately.
When we last summer started to see the microblogging-hype we felt that a search dedicated to microblogs would be a quite natural development for us. We like Twitter Search and been using it a lot, especially at conferences and when news like Mumbai were having the best news source at Twitter. But because we used Jaiku ourselves it wasn’t what we needed in many cases.
Today we’re proud to launch our own microblog search with both Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Pownce (which is sadly closed but we still have a lot of data indexed so we keeped it) and even some local microblogging platforms like the Swedish Bloggy and the German Bleeper.
It’s also therefore we call it the first federated microblog search because our goal is to indexing all microblogs from all services. If you know more microblogging services or run your own, please contact our developers so we could start index it.
To be more clear about how the search works it’s for now quite clean, we would love to hear what features you would like to have in our tech plan, but there’s some really useful tools in there already that could be nice to stated out:
- Like every search result at Twingly.com, it’s possible to get a widget for it to use on your own website or blog.
- Email-alerts so you don’t miss any important reply, retweet or comment dedicated to you or to use like a way to monitor your brands name.
- RSS to keep you updated on what microblogs saying about you, your brand, interest or anything else straight in to your RSS-reader.
- It’s possible to search for hashtags (#tag) and replies (@name)
More search possibilities could be found in our help-page and in a follow-up blog post.
The true behold of Twingly Microblog Search is of course for many people the possibilities to get a full overview of what’s saying about you, your brand or your interest on not only one service but on all microblogs. Why just search in one service when there’s many other services with active users, too?
Some improvements are still to come. The search is not realtime at the moment, expect about a five minute delay (sometimes more if the result page ends up in the cache). This will be remedied later on so that we can provide a true conversational search. Jaiku comments are not indexed. Bummer. We have been talking to @jyri about ways to accomplish that, hopefully it will be resolved soon. Verbs like save, retweet, reply, comment should be implemented in the search result.
Anyhow, we hope you’ll enjoy our new microblog search as much as we do. We’ll listen to you.
Update: Techcrunch post is here.
Tags: jaiku, microblog search, microblogging, twitter
January 20, 2009 at 01:43
Thank you for this! I have added you to the list of apps working with Laconica and/or identi.ca at http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Apps.
But I’m afraid that you are not the first search engine to index a lot of different microbloggs. You already have both Tweetscan (which is not very reliable, though) and WhosTalkin?. It’s always good with more competition, though, so I very much welcome you to the scene!
And I don’t think these others have a goal of indexing every microblog out there. If you’re really going to work toward that goal I salute you! That will be a very welcome addition to the web!
To start you off on your mission; here’s a list of microblogging services based on the open source Laconica software and here’s a list of services based on the open source OpenMicroBlogger software. You also have Talk.org, Jisko, and Twoorl.
Good luck forward! I hope this will become a part of your Twingly “pingback” service sometime soon!
January 20, 2009 at 01:45
(btw, if anyone’s interested: Talk.org, Jisko, and Twoorl are all also open source, but they’re not based on Laconica or OpenMicroBlogger, they have their own code.
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January 20, 2009 at 03:46
Looking forward to FriendFeed support. Are you gonna work against the C#-API? I have some slightly improved code if you are interested.
Also wondering, are you gonna index all the 3rd part services from Jaiku and Friendfeed? Like peoples Google reader items, bookmarks and Flickr-images?
Will it be possible to ping Twingly your self hosted lifefeed/activity stream? I can try with mine if you like. It’s kind of noisy but it could be a good testing subject for you. Let me know if you want me to give it a try.
January 20, 2009 at 06:23
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January 20, 2009 at 07:47
[...] Read more in our blog post: http://blog.twingly.com/2009/01/20/twingly-inaugurating-worlds-first-federated-microblog-search/ [...]
January 20, 2009 at 08:50
[...] Enlace | Twingly microblog search Más información | Blog oficial de Twingly [...]
January 20, 2009 at 09:01
[...] Jaiku. Identi.ca, svenska Bloggy och tyska Bleeper. Även nedlagda Powcnes arkiv är indexerat. I en bloggpost uppmanar Twingly tips om fler tjänster att [...]
January 20, 2009 at 09:19
Tack Martin! De orden värmer!
Jaikus kommentarer, Friendfeed och fler tjänster är på g!
Syns imorrn!
/Anton, Twingly.com
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January 20, 2009 at 09:32
[...] logical next step would be a microblog search engine, right? At least Twingly thinks so, because they just rolled it out (and hitting TechCrunch at that). You can give it a go [...]
January 20, 2009 at 09:45
[...] Twingly har kläckt ur sig en sökmotor för mikrobloggar, typ Twitter och Jaiku, eller varför inte svenska Bloggy? Trevligt, skrev om det på the Blog Herald, med kommentarer från VD Martin Källström. 20 januari 2009@ 9:45 • # Sparad i asides Taggad med Bloggy, Jaiku, Martin Källström, mikroblogg, sökmotor, Twingly, Twingly Microblog Search, Twitter Navigera: Skriv en kommentar eller gå till startsidan [...]
January 20, 2009 at 10:05
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January 20, 2009 at 10:12
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January 20, 2009 at 10:37
Hoffen wir das es nicht so endet wie im normalen Web. Google ist alles und der rest nur Nische. Ein paar Alternativen wären schon nicht schlecht.
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January 20, 2009 at 10:43
[...] Twingly is saying the right things on its blog. In proclaiming to the the first federated microblog search, Twingly is calling on any other [...]
January 20, 2009 at 11:01
[...] Immerhin aber gibt es seit heute eine Möglichkeit, übergreifend über die unterschiedlichen Netzwerke zu suchen: Twingly launcht die – nach eigenen Angaben – welterste, umfassende Microblog-Suche. [...]
January 20, 2009 at 12:14
…and the purpose of searching through twitter and other similar sites is what exactly?
Jon
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January 20, 2009 at 12:40
[...] Ruotsalainen Twingly julkisti mikroblogihakukoneen (lue tiedote). [...]
January 20, 2009 at 14:01
[...] Kul att Twingly dessutom redan fått mycket cred för detta. Techcrunch har skrivit om lanseringen och i Sverige har bl.a. The Blog Herald snappat upp det. Många fler kommer att skriva om detta ikväll är jag helt övertygad om. Givetivs kan du även läsa mer på Twinglys egen blogg. [...]
January 20, 2009 at 14:12
You make a good point — it seems that an incremental summarization algorithm would make sense here. I wonder if Twitter uses any of techniques to accomplish this behind the scenes…
Google seems to have a handle on at least trends and associations, and searcher information (but not author information), but summary information for the most current form of data (microblogging) seems much more exciting.
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January 20, 2009 at 15:19
Elchtest – Social Media Monitoring für Microblogging mit Twingly Suche…
Nachdem ich gestern schon zum Thema Twitter und Tourismus einen Artikel gepostet habe, noch eine kurze Meldung hinterher. Im Kaffeehype-Aktionismus nach der Mittagspause habe ich in Rekordzeit meine RSS-Feeds im Googlereader (hier zum Thema RSS und Tou…
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January 20, 2009 at 16:09
[...] inne på Twingly idag och upptäckte en ny funktion: mikrobloggsök. Twingly berättar mer i sin blogg om denna nya funktion. I princip fungerar den som Twinglys bloggsök fast den söker igenom [...]
January 20, 2009 at 16:10
[...] grymt stort över hela världen. Detta nyttjar så klart svenska bloggsökföretaget Twingly som idag kompletterar sitt vanliga bloggsök med en sökmotor för mikrobloggar, Twingly Microblog Search. Mikael [...]
January 20, 2009 at 16:43
No Plurk?
January 20, 2009 at 20:28
Twingly startet Microblogsuche…
Ein Suchergebnis kann man zudem bequem als RSS-Feed abonnieren. Damit lassen sich bestimmte Schlüsselwörter über alle Microblogging-Dienste dauerhaft durchsuchen. Bedenkt man, wie sich das Microblogging im vergangenen Jahr entwickelt hat, ein wohl l…
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January 20, 2009 at 20:39
[...] provide real-time results. There’s a delay of about five minutes, but the Twingly team promises to fix this in a future [...]
January 20, 2009 at 21:18
This is fantastic! Looking forward to more to come.
January 20, 2009 at 21:27
Looking forward to using it:-)
January 20, 2009 at 22:17
[...] Read the full story here but please note that there’s more below: Twingly inaugurating world’s first federated microblog search [...]
January 20, 2009 at 22:55
[...] inte lagt till nog med redundans så till slut kom inte alla in. Som av en händelse (nåja…) släppte också Twingly sin mikrobloggsökmotor [...]
January 21, 2009 at 01:00
[...] can find out more about it in this blog post, and here are my [...]
January 21, 2009 at 02:01
Indeed! And I found this article because one of my custom google alert search agents picked this up in and sent me an email 36 minutes ago. That’s looks to be about 24 minutes after this was posted. Cool!
Great stuff!
Kent
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January 21, 2009 at 02:03
Brand management in this manner is a pretty cool tool. New search engines and information hubs of all different types are expanding the usability of the net. Some company called Gemalto recently launched a hub on digital security I used to protect my blackberry.
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January 21, 2009 at 02:33
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January 21, 2009 at 06:44
[...] Twingly inaugurating world’s first federated microblog search [...]
January 21, 2009 at 11:02
@karibien – “caucasian” är mer kompext än “white”.[Svara] :[Citera]
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January 21, 2009 at 12:26
Kritische Lücke in Microblogging-Suche von Twingly?…
Microblogging war bereits in 2008 in aller Munde und es wird sich auch als Top-Thema durch das Jahr 2009 ziehen, wie es scheint. Grund dafür ist Twingly.
Twingly startet übergreifende Microblogging-Suche.
Die bekannte schwedische Blogsuchm…
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January 21, 2009 at 15:04
[...] objetivo de ser el primero que no incluyera spam en sus resultados. Pues bien, ahora me entero por su blog que éste mismo motor de búsquedas nos sorprende con el nuevo buscador de [...]
January 21, 2009 at 17:45
Great! I have been looking for a search tool for both Twitter and Jaiku. I probably still will use TwitScoop mostly though, since it’s integrated in my TweetDeck, but if I want to search in Jaiku I don’t have to use Jaikung http://jaiku.lemonad.org/ anymore. One less site to go
How about Soup.io http://www.soup.io/? The service took over a lot of users from Pownce (even got their own Pownce group). Don’t really know how many users the service has though so maybe it’s not worth it.
January 21, 2009 at 17:50
Pure genius. Thanks for putting the site and service together — found you through another blog and will be back often.
January 21, 2009 at 17:51
what a great thing! just found the site and will be entering my business’s blog soon!
January 21, 2009 at 22:15
[...] however, may changed with the launch of a new “federated microblog search” engine that indexes micro-blogging services. For now, it features Twitter, Jaiku, identi.ca and the [...]
January 21, 2009 at 22:48
very nice! this is looking great, maybe i will use it! and i have to come here more often!
January 22, 2009 at 08:13
Welcome new, podzdravlyaem with the opening. When in Russia will be indexed?
January 22, 2009 at 09:31
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January 22, 2009 at 11:23
[...] announced yesterday that they have launched a microblogging search engine that can search across the most used microblogging services; Twitter, [...]
January 22, 2009 at 15:08
[...] buscador de blogs Twingly ha decidido lanzar un buscador múltiple de los diferentes sitios de microblogging más importantes del mundo, Twingly Microblog Search. [...]
January 23, 2009 at 00:13
Hey there Nathan, thanks for the coverage on our financing round, AIF and the exciting addition of Warren to the team.
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January 23, 2009 at 01:33
[...] M. Godfrey on Jan.21, 2009, under Digital Media Swedish search engine Twingly announced Tuesday that it has launched a new microblog search that will allow users to find information and [...]
January 24, 2009 at 05:34
As coincidence would have it I was leaving the office when we had an earthquake tonight. Jumped in twitter 1st and then posted info to my site with links to gov earthquake data. Ironically, it was the only result for the quake appearing in google news, until about 45 min after event when NBC Los Angeles info appeared. By that time, hundreds were all over the conversation on twitter.
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January 25, 2009 at 14:35
[...] har bloggsökmotorn Twingly börjat indexera [...]
January 25, 2009 at 23:25
Japp kul att ses på 24hourbc!
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January 26, 2009 at 03:02
[...] Twingly har också lanserat en helt ny sökmotor, nämligen mikrobloggsöket. [...]
January 26, 2009 at 10:19
Oj, vilken bra post.Besvara :Citera
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January 27, 2009 at 13:08
[...] Mer om Twinglys mikrobloggtjänst. [...]
January 28, 2009 at 18:09
Thanks for mentioning the Spiral16 team in your software updates!
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January 28, 2009 at 22:00
Blogit joissa yleisin aihe teksteille ovat blogit ovat aika tylsiä, eikö totta? Kuten Pinseri.
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February 6, 2009 at 13:46
Echtzeitsuche ist ja schön und gut, aber ich finde keine Twitter-Suchmachine, die eine Suche mit Datum und Uhrzeit bietet (à la am 15.1. zwischen 8.30 und 9.30 Uhr). Bestimmt habe ich da etwas übersehen?
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February 7, 2009 at 11:59
Nice tool, thanks for information.
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March 10, 2009 at 00:02
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June 13, 2009 at 05:48
Hallo,
ich habe Twingly mit der Eingabe von meinem Twitter-Namen ebenfalls gerade getestet und erstaunlicherweise gab es auch schon mindestens 10 Unterseiten mit meinen Tweets oder auch wo @blogsash vorkam.
Für die Zukunft wäre es interessant eine komplette Twitter-Suche in der Google Suche so ähnlich wie Google Blogsearch zu haben. Dann hätte man eine einzige SuMa für alles Mögliche.
Was ich noch bei Twingly gemerkt habe, dass auch die in den letzten Minuten verfasste Tweets angezeigt wurden:-)
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