Just about a year ago, Twazzup launched one of the more interesting Twitter search engines and one month ago, it became one of the first services to get access to Twitter’s full firehose stream. Today, the company is launching its first new service based on this full Twitter stream: Twazzup Insights. Insights is a real-time Twitter analytics service that displays a lot of interesting data about any given keyword, as well as a list of the most influential Twitter users that use this keyword. In addition, Twazzup is also launching its web-based Twitter client Twazzup Reader out of beta.
Twazzup Insights
The new analytics service is still in private alpha testing, but a couple of teaser reports on the site already show the application’s potential. Besides displaying the number of tweets and retweets about a given keyword per hour, the service also highlights the top links about this topic, as well as a list of the top influencers, as well as the most often used hashtags and other keywords in these tweets. In addition, Twazzup Insights also performs a basic sentiment analysis on these tweets.
If you would like to get early access to this service, you can use the request form on Twazzup Insights, or send an email to info[at]twazzup[dot]com.
Twazzup Reader
Twazzup Reader looks similar to Brizzly, but offers a number of interesting features that set it apart from the competition. Besides offering all the standard Twitter features (lists, search etc.), Twazzup Reader also shows images and short text snippets from all the links that appear in your stream. In addition, you can also filter every stream, including lists and persistent searches, by posts with images and videos. Whenever you are feeling especially helpful, you can also highlight all the messages that include a question.
Overall, Twazzup Reader is a very capable web-based Twitter client and definitely worth a try.
