CrowdEye Searches Twitter So You Don’t Have To

• Jun 18th, 2009
• Posted by Ron Schott
• Posted in Good Ideas, Phish Reference!, Social Media News, Social Media Technology, Twitter

The Twitter API might get thrown around like a hacky sack at a Phish concert, but useful tools are always welcome at the SCG World Headquarters.  When we heard that 20-year Microsoft vet Ken Moss (and wife Becca) was about to launch a beta Twitter search tool- we admit, we got a little excited.

After visiting the site the other day and seeing an old-school “under construction” icon, we had a bit of déjà vu, but seeing the site in action today has snapped us back to 2009 and the year of the Twitter-based application.

CrowdEye takes a step beyond Twitter’s integrated search creating a great tool for monitoring real-time feedback that allows users to drill deeper than before.

Say you search for “Seattle.”  You not only get a snapshot of the latest popular links and tweets around that search term, but CrowdEye also offers up the top words associated with tweets containing “Seattle” in a word cloud (Rain, Vancouver, Sounders, Alehouse, Urban, and Mariners top the list in a 2:32 p.m. search).  The filter function allows you to dive even deeper looking for tweets by either clicking the word in the word cloud, or adding it in the filter box.

Look for more chatter about this tool in the coming weeks as businesses, groups, and marketers alike start realizing its potential – or you can just search for @crowdeye at http://www.crowdeye.com.