Web App: twitterex
Posted by admin on 11 March, 2009
1 comment so far
This item was filed under [ web apps ]
twitterex is a web app that allows users to perform a search on Twitter and have the results display an extended version of any URL along with an “abstract” of its contents.
Features:
- simple web UI requires only the entry of search terms
- search results are displayed as a list of tweets with extended URLs and abstracts of their contents
- avatars displayed along with tweets in search results
The Good:
twitterex is another tool that lets you search Twitter, with the added benefit of extending shrunken URLs and giving a short abstract of the content of the link.
The Not-so-Good:
While it is nice to have URLs extended, sometimes the abstracts weren’t available for display. Also, there is no indication of when the tweets were sent or by what Twitter client. Finally, hovering over the avatar shows you the link for the user’s Twitter account page, so there is no mechanism for following directly from twitterex.
Tweetwave.com rates it: ★★
One Comment on “Web App: twitterex”
Twitterex is indeed a good web service. But you can get the same functionality using Twitter Search. The only difference is you have to click on ‘Expand’ on each link to see the expanded URL. But one advantage of Twitterex is the availability of Abstracts in additions to expanded links corresponding to hashtags