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Maryanne Burgos does a nice job of comparing microblogging tools in this post.

Enter your Twitter handle, and other handles you would like to compare it with:

Compare what is being tweeted. Great graph.

You can compare various concepts, separate them with commas ( breakfast, dinner hillary, obama microsoft, yahoo american idol, the office )

Compare two terms in tweets with related words

Twitter's default search only goes back a week-if that-and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, there ARE many great alternatives, and I've included a chart comparing the nine top tweet search engines below. Here are links to each of the nine,  in order of what I've found most useful to least useful for general tweet searches (however, some are powerful in other ways)):

Overall, Twitter is best thought of as a message queuing/routing system built on top of a cache/repository platform.

With Windows 7, many users have been scrambling to compare the OS to Apple's leading product, OS X Snow Leopard. But wait - what about Google Chrome OS?

DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.

"Enter two Twitter usernames. See how many friends and followers they share."

"Followerwonk helps you explore and grow your social graph. Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet?"