Jochem Prins » Social networking http://www.jochemprins.com about search, Web2.0 and things I like Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:28:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Introducing Tweepz http://www.jochemprins.com/2009/03/16/introducing-tweepz/ http://www.jochemprins.com/2009/03/16/introducing-tweepz/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:51 +0000 Jochem http://www.jochemprins.com/?p=149 logoDuring the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some evening-hours on a new project called Tweepz. It actually started when I noticed that it is rather difficult to find people on twitter which might be interesting to follow. Twitter’s own usersearch only allows to search by name and another similar initiative twitdir has been down for quite a while already. Thanks to my job @ exalead I have the opportunity to develop upon a pretty powerful search engine, so I started crawling twitter.

The first version is now ready (although there might be some bugs here and there), it’s available on www.tweepz.com.

Besides performing a regular search, you can also use a couple of operators in order to restrict the search to a specific field (bio:, name: and loc:). Next to these operators, you can perform fuzzy queries using spellslike: and soundslike: or by using a wildcard *. Think I’ll add an advanced search window later this week, that should make it a bit easier to perform advanced queries.

Currently around 400.000 twitter profiles have been indexed so there’re still a lot to collect by the crawler. If you are twittering, you can speed up the indexation of your own profile by following @tweepz.

Hope you’ll find it a handy tool, suggestions or feature requests are of course welcome!

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