Tweefind, A Rank-Based Twitter Search Engine
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Tweefind is a Twitter search engine designed to sift through the noisy environment of Twitter by ranking users based on their popularity and importance. It aggregates valuable content from Twitter and other sources, providing a more relevant search experience by filtering out spam and less meaningful tweets. The service employs a ranking system called Tweerank, taking into account multiple parameters to continuously evaluate user importance.
Tweefind, A Rank-Based Twitter Search Engine
- 1. A Twitter Search Engine by User Rank www.tweefind.com
- 2. Tweefind - The Market Problem It’s time to re-think search sources: not only websites/blogs tons of useful news shared on Twitter, Friendfeed etc. information, images, videos shared on Facebook etc. people talk and chat about topics that can become trends need a way to assign a “rank” to social networks’ users need a way to aggregate all this information Cagliari, July 07, 2009 03, 2
- 3. Tweefind - The Market Problem Three Types of Search Search 1.0 Focused on pages and content within them very basic concept Search 2.0 Focused on pages, content, links, authority of linking sites pagerank Search 3.0 Relevance is determined by content, context and relevance for your network people share content Cagliari, July 07, 2009 03, 2
- 4. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter Twitter’s growth is explosive 19M users 267% growth on quarter basis 1250% growth on annual basis Cagliari, July 07, 2009 3
- 5. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter Twitter is a busy and noisy place lots of users lots of spam lots of casual users lots of personal and not relevant content Potential response need a way to take the good content out of the noise need a way to give that content a “value” and display the most valuable only Cagliari, July 07, 2009 3
- 6. Tweefind - Value Proposition Tweefind is a twitter search engine scans the popular micro-blogging service displays results ordered by user rank displays related searches coming from other sources Google, Bing Techcrunch, Mashable, NYT, Friendfeed... Youtube video (the most popular) Highest ranked twitter users takes links out from the tweets and shows the most re-tweeted (re-tweet means endorsement) Cagliari, July 07, 2009 2
- 7. Tweefind – The Solution Tweerank is a measure of how popular/important a Twitter user is works 24/7 to assign a rank to each Twitter user it changes daily over 4M users ranked so far takes into account over 20 parameters, like # followers # following # of followers / #of following # of tweets # of RT he/she receives # of replies # of distinct users who reply # of distinct users who retweet # of RT he/she makes # of links the user shares ..... Cagliari, July 07, 2009 4
- 8. Tweefind – Main interface 1/2 Example: search for “iphone” Most searched keywords Highest-ranked Twitter users for the keyword “iphone” (from Tweepfind.com) Main results from Twitter Most re-tweeted news for ordered by “user rank” “iphone” Results from Friendfeed, New York Times, Techcrunch, Mashable, etc. Cagliari, July 07, 2009 5
- 9. Tweefind – Main interface 2/2 Example: search for “iphone” Buttons to switch to Google/Bing results Similar and relevant search terms Results coming from the search engine Bing Cagliari, July 07, 2009 5
- 10. Tweefind – Relevant Link Extraction Example: search for “iphone” Tweefind extracts links contained in the tweets displayed in the first page Searches Tweetmeme for those links Displays the three most- retweeted on the sidebar Cagliari, July 07, 2009 5
- 11. Tweefind – Plugins and Widgets Blog/Website widget Firefox/IE search plugin Cagliari, July 07, 2009 4
- 12. Tweefind – Benefits Filters the good content coming from highest ranked users Remove noise and useless tweets from search results Lots of relevant and related search results coming from different sources, all together Very useful to find new great and valuable Twitter users to follow One-Stop-Shop for search from multiple different sources Cagliari, July 07, 2009 4
- 13. Tweefind – Contacts http://www.tweefind.com http://twitter.com/tweefind info@tweefind.com Cagliari, July 07, 2009 4