I’m in the process of researching the topic of the use of Twitter as an actual tool for doing useful research. The results of this will be published in the April issue of The Information Advisor, but so far I’ve been able to locate two different sites that permit levels of keyword searching of recent Twitters–that’s the first step at least: These are:
Twitterment and TweetScan
Of course there’s more to a good research tool than the ability to conduct a search–the content has to be valuable and useful too…and there is a possibility that Twitter could be used for near real-time and archival business intelligence, and competitive intelligence as well as for identifying trends–maybe! That’s what I’m looking into now.
RSS Feeds
Other applications like facebook and AIM and Myspace have similar and more features. I think twitter will not be going anywhere.
Comment by Anonymous — February 21, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
The thing about Twitter though is that when people start using it, even when they are extremely skeptical to begin with, so many of them really seem to absolutely love it–they are extremely passionate, and that gives Twitter a certain energy and potential….
Comment by Robert Berkman — February 29, 2008 @ 9:18 am