Tweetmi - Discovering the best of Twitter

In my last post I provided an illustration that highlighted the opportunity to build community-oriented applications that incorporate real-time search, real-time aggregation and real-time forums. I decided to try to do all this in one app - Tweetmi.

Tweetmi helps you discover the best of Twitter for any topic. Tweetmi finds the most active people and stories that are driving the real-time conversation on Twitter, making it perfect for searching or tracking your topics of interest - whether they are your favorite tv shows or your favorite technology.



Tweetmi taps into the Twitter search API to display a real-time feed of Tweets on any topic. But the cool part is that it uses these real-time tweets to maintain a running index of the real-time conversation. And from this conversation, we can extract great content. And this works for any search query.

I think it's an interesting project because as everything shifts to real-time, we'll need a way to capture the best of this ongoing stream, so we don't miss the highlights.