Excerpted from David Lee King:
“…Here’s a list of Twitter search engines and what they found. Thankfully, there’s one #getpermission tweet out there right now, so theoretically, every search should at least find that recent tweet. Let’s see what happens!
Found the most recent tweet plus something else:
- Topsy – found it, plus three others (including the ones I quoted in my last post). You have to click “all time” to get those. It’s obviously NOT all time, or it would have found everything else, too. Not sure what’s up with that. But hey – it’s something!
- twazzup – found it, plus found my last post, a news article that mentioned “get permission”
- crowdeye – found it plus one other, plus my blog post.
Found the most recent tweet only:
- collecta
- icerocket
- tweetscan
- twitscoop
- itpints – found the tweet – also found some random youtube video that had “get permission” in the description of the video.
- Bing’s twitter search
- tweezi
- scoopler
- hashtags
And finally, search engines that found nothing – not even the most recent tweet:
- Tweetmeme
- twitority
- twitalyzer – this one didn’t search at all – they claimed that Twitter was acting up again, and said “come back later!”
- yauba
- tweefind
- cloud.li
- trendistic
- twittertroll – Interestingly, they said “no results. We suck” when nothing was found. Well … yes, you do!
- twitterment – This one doesn’t seem to search hashtags. It took my hashtag, separated the words, and ran a search for “get permission”
- oneriot – this search stripped out the hashtag and found something completely unrelated.
- twitmatic – dunno. still waiting for the search to complete its “first time indexing” …
So there you have it! Want to find an “ancient” tweet (as in, older than 10 days)? I’d suggest using Topsy orCrowdeye (probably both)…”
