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Tweet Scan: Search engine for Twitter

Tweet Scan
Whether you use Twitter or not, you might want to check out Tweet Scan, a Twitter-based search engine. Basically, what Tweet Scan lets you do is search Twitter's public timeline for snippets of text. There are at least a few reasons this could come in handy even if you don't use Twitter:
  1. You can find out what people are saying about a topic, web site, political candidate, etc right now
  2. Twitter users may only be able to post 140 characters at a time, but they often post links to longer articles with more information, so you can treat Tweet Scan as a sort of blog/news search engine
  3. Having trouble accessing a popular web page? Just type it into Tweet Scan and if a major web site or service is down, odds are other people are complaining too
If you are a Twitter user, Tweet Scan is also a quick and easy way to find other users with similar interests.

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