Tweefind lets you search Twitter and displays results ordered according to a rank assigned to users.
This rank (Tweerank) depends on how popular/relevant/active those users are on Twitter. The higher this rank is, the more authority a user has.
The Tweerank is assigned by an algorithm / spider working 24/7 and changes dinamically depending on how a user uses Twitter.
2. Tweefind - The Market Problem
It’s time to re-think search
sources: not only websites/blogs
tons of useful news shared on Twitter,
Friendfeed etc.
information, images, videos shared on Facebook
etc.
people talk and chat about topics that can
become trends
need a way to assign a “rank” to social
networks’ users
need a way to aggregate all this information
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3. Tweefind - The Market Problem
Three Types of Search
Search 1.0
Focused on pages and content within them
very basic concept
Search 2.0
Focused on pages, content, links, authority of linking
sites
pagerank
Search 3.0
Relevance is determined by content, context and
relevance for your network
people share content
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4. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
Twitter’s growth is
explosive
19M users
267% growth on
quarter basis
1250% growth
on annual basis
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5. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
Twitter is a busy and noisy place
lots of users
lots of spam
lots of casual users
lots of personal and not relevant content
Potential response
need a way to take the good content out of the noise
need a way to give that content a “value” and display
the most valuable only
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6. Tweefind - Value Proposition
Tweefind is a twitter search engine
scans the popular micro-blogging service
displays results ordered by user rank
displays related searches coming from other sources
Google, Bing
Techcrunch, Mashable, NYT, Friendfeed...
Youtube video (the most popular)
Highest ranked twitter users
takes links out from the tweets and shows the most
re-tweeted (re-tweet means endorsement)
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7. Tweefind – The Solution
Tweerank
is a measure of how popular/important a Twitter user is
works 24/7 to assign a rank to each Twitter user
it changes daily
over 4M users ranked so far
takes into account over 20 parameters, like
# followers
# following
# of followers / #of following
# of tweets
# of RT he/she receives
# of replies
# of distinct users who reply
# of distinct users who retweet
# of RT he/she makes
# of links the user shares
.....
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8. Tweefind – Main interface 1/2
Example: search for “iphone” Most searched keywords
Highest-ranked Twitter users
for the keyword “iphone” (from
Tweepfind.com)
Main results from Twitter Most re-tweeted news for
ordered by “user rank” “iphone”
Results from Friendfeed, New
York Times, Techcrunch,
Mashable, etc.
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9. Tweefind – Main interface 2/2
Example: search for “iphone”
Buttons to switch to Google/Bing
results
Similar and relevant
search terms
Results coming from
the search engine Bing
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10. Tweefind – Relevant Link Extraction
Example: search for
“iphone”
Tweefind extracts links
contained in the tweets
displayed in the first page
Searches Tweetmeme for
those links
Displays the three most-
retweeted on the sidebar
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11. Tweefind – Plugins and Widgets
Blog/Website widget
Firefox/IE search plugin
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12. Tweefind – Benefits
Filters the good content coming from highest
ranked users
Remove noise and useless tweets from search
results
Lots of relevant and related search results coming
from different sources, all together
Very useful to find new great and valuable Twitter
users to follow
One-Stop-Shop for search from multiple different
sources
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