Twitter announced on its official blog that it is granting a handful of new search startups partners full access to all its data feed of public tweets— a.k.a. the “Firehose”.
According to the blog post, the company is “happily turning the Firehose on for some new partners focused mainly on exploring the incredibly rich field of real-time search and discovery.”
Earlier the full spectrum of data available in the “Firehose” was previously only available to Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. With this announcement, Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search will all join on as partners with Twitter and have access to the entirety of Twitter’s data stream in real time.These companies range from funded startups to part-time, one-person operations so theye came up with a fair way to license access that scales with their business.
With access to the full Firehose of data, it is possible to move far beyond the Twitter experiences we know today.
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Last week Twitter began to slowly roll out a new feature called Local Trends to expose what people are talking about on the state and city level, and now they have fully launched so everyone can use it.
Once you set your location, Local Trends allows you to see what conversational trends are popular nearby. Changing your location immediately updates the list of trending topics in the right-hand sidebar of your Twitter.com home display.
Twitter currently has a limited number of options to choose from in terms of location but they are working on adding more. It has been mentioned in the Twitter blog that they will be improving this feature over time to provide more locations, languages, and data through their API.
Local Trends will allow you to learn more about the nuances in our world and discover even more relevant topics that might matter to you.
Twitter plays a major role specifically to crowd source stories and promote your work.The power and scope of Twitter increases multi fold – when a citizen walking on the street – can stream a video feed to Twitter instantly.
Tvider is a free online Application that uses the power of Twitter Service to blend video, picture, text messages and audio in one service using your Computer or Mobile Phones.
Tvider has a wide reach on all leading mobile devices and platforms viz. J2ME, BREW, Symbian S60, iPhone, Blackberry.
Tvider have made it easy to share digital media (Audio, Video, Pictures) for Real Time Citizen Journalism just as easily from your Mobile in 3 Easy steps
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Choose what you want to tweet – Picture, Video, Audio or a Media File saved on your mobile.
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Enter your status message to go along the media file in twitter and choose ‘Update’
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Check out your timeline to see you and your friends media tweets. Reply your friends with media tweets or re-tweet them.
Tvider application – which allows Anywhere, Anyhow and Anyway sharing of media (Video, Audio and Pictures) on Twitter enables real time visual journalism by a simple upload button.
Twitter has announced that they have partnered with mobile provider Telstra to provide SMS Twitter support in Australia.
As always, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS. It’s the same pricing as sending and receiving text messages from friends. Give it a try by sending “START” to 0198089488.
Once you have your phone associated with your Twitter account ,try following @Telstra by sending “FOLLOW Telstra” to 0198089488. Or follow one of these popular accounts via SMS by sending “FOLLOW” and the username.
@australian (News from The Australian newspaper)
@delta_goodrem (Musician)
@kyleandjackieo (Australia’s #1 radio show)
@DanniiMinogue (Team Minogue judge for The X Factor)
@KevinRuddPM (Prime Minister)
This adds Australia to the list of official countries supporting tweets via SMS: United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Indonesia, and New Zealand.
Microblogging site Twitter has been thrust into profitability after signing two lucrative search deals with Google and Microsoft.
Twitter announced earlier this year that it had signed deals with both Google and Microsoft’s Bing to include tweets in real-time search results.
BusinessWeek, which was bought in October by financial news agency Bloomberg, said Twitter had signed a $US15 million ($16.8 million) data-mining deal with Google and a $US10 million agreement with Microsoft.
