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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Flocking.me: a Twitter search for your friends only

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Twitter search is a big business these days. Thanks to search partnerships with Google and Microsoft, Twitter is profitable for the first time ever. That doesn't mean Twitter search is any good, though.

For example, what if you wanted to limit a search to the streams of people you follow? Search.twitter.com can't do it, but a site called Flocking.me can.

Searching only within your friends' tweets is cool, but it's not always going to beat searching all of Twitter, especially when it comes to breaking news. On the other hand, Flocking.me shows trending topics for you friends, which are very likely to be more interesting to you than the general - and generally asinine - trending topics. Flocking results also update automatically in real time, which makes it useful for following new developments.

Although Flocking.me is a great idea for a site, be careful when you set up your account for the first time. I've noticed quite a few people accidentally auto-tweeting an advertisement. Make sure you uncheck that box if you don't want to spam your followers.

[via Lifehacker]

Flocking.me: a Twitter search for your friends only originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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