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)):
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.
Prodromou compares the state of micro-messaging to the early days of
consumer e-mail. In the early 1990s, the e-mail world was dominated by
proprietary dial-up entities
“I couldn’t send you e-mail and you couldn’t send me e-mail,” Prodromou
explained. “We were on these separate islands. Making the change to an
open standard for Internet e-mail has meant e-mail has become
ubiquitous. I think that’s where we’re at now with microblogging.”
the once-tiny Twitter has grown like a magic beanstalk into a full-fledged communications medium — taking its place alongside Web pages, e-mail and maybe even television
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