Want to know what’s hot on Twitter right now? TwitScoop gives you a quick snapshot of the top words in a tag cloud that updates every 20 seconds. Hover over any of the words to get a view of the last 5 tweets with that word highlighted. Click on a word to get a graph of its usage over the past 6 hours, day or 3 days. If you see an interesting tag cloud, click the “Tweet this cloud” button to save a snapshot of the page, with the option to send a link to Twitter (its kind of like freezing time). Here’s a link to the snapshot I saved of the twitter cloud. A widget is also available to add the hot trends tag cloud to your blog or website. Or subscribe to TwitScoop on Twitter to be updated with links to top events.
For more in depth results, choose a keyword or username to search for. Twitscoop will give you an overview of the tweets which you can click on to get more details – the last 20 tweets with the keyword highlighted and a graph of the usage over the past 6 hours, day or 3 days. If there are new results, Twitscoop will periodically update the page with a reminder to refresh to see new results (which doesn’t interupt your current research). Click the “Tweet these results” button to save your results, giving you a link or an option to send a link to Twitter. For examples, this is a link to the results for “social” that I just investigated.
TwitScoop is good tool to get a quick view of what’s going on or for research into what has been said about a certain topic (if it was within 3 days). Unlike TweetScan, there isn’t an RSS feed to subscribe to results for periodic updates, but TwitScoop’s graphing capabilities can give you good information of how a topic is trending.
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