About Social Media Today
A week or so ago, I wondered aloud in Twitter if CoTweet would start storing searches and within 24 hours the stored search feature appeared. It is clean and easy to use. You simply type in a search string and the search appears in an “explore” window. It remains in the explore window until you delete it. With each tweet in the searches you can still do all the usual CoTweet work (replying, retweeting, assignging, emailing, etc). You can also easily subscribe to the query’s atom feed if you need to do more detailed analysis.
What is most important about this is that you can easily keep this on a screen and make twitter a multithreaded meme tracker. You really can join in a topic-specific conversation with people whether you follow them or not. The entire spread of the twittersphere is at your fingertips and is updated in near real time. I find myself in long-running topical conversations about kanban, personal kanban, government 2.0 and more. Having all the feeds on one page and being able to reply, save, or whatever the individual post is incredible. This makes the usual firehose of random tweets much more manageable and opens topics for true conversation.
Next, would be searches with operands. Being able to have an "or" in a search string would make it even better.
Again I praise the CoTweet folks.
