Twitter’s search engine is really one of it’s great features, and in this article I’m going to demonstrate some really cool searches you can do with it. This is kind of a follow up to Thomas Baekdal’s excellent article here on Twitip “ 7 Secret Ways To Use Twitter Search ” which you should check out as well. 1. Who’s saying stuff about me outside of Twitter? This search will show you Tweets that people... 

Flocking.me takes a great approach to searches against twitter.  Instead of a search giving you results form everyone, it only gives results from your friends. Authentication is done via oAuth and offers four areas to work with: search results from your friends results on a map trends from just your friends live updates This is a great tool you should add to your arsenal of ways to gather information …  Read More →

Recently, there’s been a surge in complaints by Twitter users who’s tweets aren’t getting indexed in Twitter Search.  When I recently shared  ways to avoid being filtered from Twitter Search ,  the amazing TwitterKarma developer, Dossy, alerted me to his new service:  SearchCheck . SearchCheck will notifiy you via DM on each day that your tweets are not indexed by Twitter. Not only can you use my prevention strategies,... 

Let the battle to index Twitter begin. Twitter, the microblogging platform that’s quickly reshaping how the world thinks about communicating, announced this week in two separate blog posts (@google Nice and Bing Goes the Dynamite) that they’ve finished negotiating deals with both Microsoft and… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.  Read More →

by David Turnbull – Follow him @dturnbull CoTweet.com is a powerful Twitter-centric web application designed to help brands connect with their audience and join the conversation. Although used by some large companies such as Ford, Pepsi and Whole Foods I’ve seen little mention of the tool in the blogosphere and thought it deserved some attention. Why use CoTweet.com? Integrated monitoring and response . By going to cotweet.com/search (after... 

by LisaMarieDias – follow her @LisaMarieDias For all the hoopla that surrounds Twitter and the myriad of apps (applications) that have sprung up to help people manage and make sense of it, I haven’t seen a single article singing the praises of Twitter’s basic search tool. And sing they should! The basic search tool that resides in the sidebar of everyone’s Twitter page is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find people, answers,... 

New web service TweetMixx is a bit like TweetMeme meets saved Twitter searches meets a web-based Twitter client. It allows you to follow your favorite topics, not just people, and attempts to help cull the best tweets from people you don’t and may not even want to follow  Read More →

There’s an astonishing amount of information to be gleaned from mining the amazing real-time stream of information Twitter provides. Twitter search is an extremely powerful way of turning up some of those answers  Read More →

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.  Read More →

Your tweets, as ephemeral as they may be, may have some actual long-term value. If you need to reference one of your better whimsical musings or find something of real value (like a phone number in a direct message), good luck trying to track them down using Twitter Search after more than a few days: they will be gone  Read More →

With all the buzz around social media, opportunistic and shady businesses are savvy to the fact that those with less than perfect intentions want to take the easy street to instant credibility. Enter social media salesman, uSocial , a company that has become somewhat notorious for previously selling Diggs and Twitter followers . In both instances, the startups tried to have them shutdown, but uSocial is back at it, and this time their promise... 

Yesterday, Honda released photos of their new 2010 crossover vehicle, the Accord Crosstour. As savvy social media marketers, they’ve set up a Facebook Fan Page to revel in all the fan support and social sharing in the aftermath of the big reveal  Read More →

Just over a year ago, Twitter acquired a small startup, Summize , a search engine for tweets. Once the deal was done, Twitter launched Twitter Search , and the real-time search revolution began. Because of that acquisition, real-time search has exploded .  Read More →

Facebook’s on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed , one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world’s largest social network to boost their social technology, specifically realtime streams, conversations, social media aggregation, and search.  Read More →

by Neal Wiser (@ nealwiser ) Back in the mid 1990s, I worked at Paramount Pictures and their emergent television network, the now defunct United Paramount Network. It was a great time to be at Paramount if you were a Star Trek fan  Read More →