There are a many Twitter applications that allow users to use Twitter in efficient ways. The newest (and coolest) Twitter app that I have come across is Monitter.com. Accessing live data that updates without refreshing is a powerful way to stay up on the latest buzz. You can filter the Twitter stream by user, keyword and geographical search to receive information about topics that matters most to you. There are a couple of major features that I have included and a couple applications that I have used Twitter for.
Monitter was created using the Adobe Air platform by Alex Holt. The easy to use interface allows you to add three keywords and watch as individual Twitter users mention the keywords in their “tweets” (twitter messages). Monniter is useful for a couple reasons. The first reason is that you don’t have to refresh your page. The application creates a scrolling effect that allows you to be hands off. You are able to receive real time updates (well, almost real time) without refreshing your page. If you are wanting immediate data from random individuals this is a tool that you need to consider using.
You can create three individual queries of twitter and see what people are saying. I chose three well known people and held a Monitter race. Starting from the top of the page I watched as users mentioned the people by name. As one of the three individuals were mentioned the page column would slide down the page. Good or bad, George Bush beat out both Alan Greenspan and Bill gates for the five minutes that I watched. I wasn’t able to use the screen shot of the race because this is a rated G blog and people seem to have a lot of bad things to say about the Commander in Chief. Monitter races may be slightly unpractical, I know. The value of the data is as useful as you make it.
I’ve used Monitter for the last couple of days to augment other ways of finding out about new tools. I set up three individual queries “new tool”, “trying out”, and “testing out”. From the three real time queries I was able to locate a few tools that I had never heard of before. I also stumbled upon many people new to Twitter who were “trying [twitter] out” for the very first time. Having access to real time twitter feeds has many uses. There are some other ways that Monitter is really useful, in what ways is it useful for you?
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