Summize.com now redirects to search.twitter.com.

Quoted: Search Twitter in realtime - see what the world is doing right now.

Twitter uses the model of a single monolithic service which attempts to become a central hub for all personal "event" messages. As we are seeing, this is a very challenging scaling problem.

There is some standardization work going on around "XMPP" - which started as an IM protocol (person-to-person), but has added extensions to support "publish-subscribe" (PubSub) and "Personal Eventing" (PEP).

I think a distributed system, more like email, may be a more sustainable way to deliver the Twitter-like services that people desire. There will still need to be centralized servers that support "tracking" - so people can subscribe to updates for groups or tags.

Unfortunately, Twitter-like functionality has N^2 scaling characteristics (since each Tweet generates a message that has to be transmitted to each follower). So any architecture designed to handle the load will have to efficiently manage the collection and then distribution of all of these messages.

30 minutes to the first web report by newspapers. Suspect was apparently shot in the head! The twitter-ers reported "dozens" of shots fired.

Quoted: Seattle police chased an alleged bank robber into downtown Seattle Tuesday, and were attempting to arrest the man shortly before 11 a.m.

Twitter beats out local media in breaking the story of the shooting in downtown Seattle today.

Here's a query on Summize that shows all the Twitter messages by people registered in Seattle with keywords "cops, police or shots".

Top twitter followers - Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte top the list at over 40K each!

I'd like to use the Summize API to build a nice Twitter widget in StartPad.org.

This is a new "rockstar" site in my opinion. You can now tap into the global gestalt of twitters our there by searching on any keyword. It's a great way to find out if people are sharing the same issue as you (e.g, Firefox 3 crashes, services being down, etc.)

And it's FAST. I hope it doesn't get slower as it becomes more popular.

Twemes, btw, only searches hascodes in the twitter stream.

Quoted: Search Twitter conversations in realtime - discover what people are doing right now.

The Twitter "Fail Whale"

Quoted: Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time

hashtags users' Drupal Camp Seattle posts will be indexed here. I'm confused about whether Twemes relies on hashtags.org or not. Seems to me that they don't.