Tweepz: Twitter People Finder from Exalead
May 6, 2009
Exalead is riding the Twitter train. Exalead, http://www.exalead.com, a
leader of search-based business application solutions and information
access in the enterprise and on the web, has created an engine that
searches accounts at Twitter, a free social messaging utility that’s hot
right now. Tweepz, http://www.tweepz.com, has crawled 3,913,354 accounts
as of May 4, 2009.
A spokesperson for Exalead told Beyond Search:
The main reason the company supported Tweepz was that it was extremely difficult to find people on twitter. The power of Tweepz is that it enables you to find people by their biography, location and name. This can be of help when you are looking for people to follow, want to get in contact with somebody from a specific company etc. Twitter does not provide this functionality right now.
Beyond Search learned that improvements are planned; for example:
- Index people homepage as well, making it possible to find people based on the content of their Web page
- Provide a way to get personal recommendations on people which you
might want to follow - Keep track of the subjects that individuals are talking about on
Twitter
The current service returns results by by account (title, name, description, location, Web site, etc.), and there are sorting and search refine suggestions too.
Since Twitter is all about following people, this engine could be gold for those looking to connect to others with similar interests/business. One nice little whistle on the Tweepz train? RSS your results as a feed for continuous updates. Exalead is chugging ahead of the pack with this project. Tweet @tweepz for more info.
Jessica Bratcher, May 6, 2009
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