Earlier in the week we had a chat with Guy Kawasaki about integration of the TweetMeme content and button into AllTop and as a result TweetMeme is now on Alltop.com http://tweetmeme.alltop.com/.
As you may have already noticed Alltop is a great new way to read all our different feeds and in terms of our content it takes the top stories and aggregates them to give you a quick and simple view of what we have on our site. Feel free to take a peak and let us and Guy know what you think.
Our thanks on this one to @guykawasaki and his team for getting it all sorted out it looks great and we look forward to seeing what happens next with it.
We are very happy today to be releasing our Twitter real-time deep link search. (quick link: http://search.tweetmeme.com ) We have been quietly building up an infrastructure that could leverage all the work we have previously done on aggregating all the links from Twitter and deep delving those links to find content and media.
We launch today with the ability to search 15+ million links which we have deep searched for content, this not only includes the text from web pages and blog posts but also videos and images.
Although the ability to keep our index totally real-time is great we also believe that the delivery of relevance is still just as important, our default search results are based upon a clever combination of newness, retweets and some other weighting factors. This means results tend to be recent and relevant but at the same time the most popular. We do also offer search by ‘Age’. Lastly you can sort the results purely by ‘retweets’ to give you the most relevant results based upon its popularity on Twitter.
Here is a quick bullet point of the key features of our search,
- Real-time search – our indexer picks up stories as they come out of Twitter
- Boolean operators (& | – ! and grouping) – explained below
- Sort by Best Match
- Sort by Age
- Sort by Retweet Count
- Filtering
- Filter by Category
- Filter by Media (News, Images, Videos)
- Filter by Age (recent links first)
- Filter by Tweets (e.g. 100+ retweets)
- Filter by Channel (e.g. apple, start-ups)
- RSS – you can subscribe to any of the search results
- Retweet – you can retweet the links you find without leaving the site (if you are logged in via OAuth)
Some guidelines on how to use our search -> http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/05/11/search-guidelines/
Lastly we will soon expose the engine via our API so that other developers can leverage the results.
See what the press have said already:
Or just search on TweetMeme
