Tweefind is a Twitter search engine designed to sift through the noisy environment of Twitter by ranking users based on their popularity and importance. It aggregates valuable content from Twitter and other sources, providing a more relevant search experience by filtering out spam and less meaningful tweets. The service employs a ranking system called Tweerank, taking into account multiple parameters to continuously evaluate user importance.

1. A Twitter Search Engine by User Rank
www.tweefind.com

2. Tweefind - The Market Problem
 It’s time to re-think search
 sources: not only websites/blogs
 tons of useful news shared on Twitter,
Friendfeed etc.
 information, images, videos shared on Facebook
etc.
 people talk and chat about topics that can
become trends
 need a way to assign a “rank” to social
networks’ users
 need a way to aggregate all this information
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3. Tweefind - The Market Problem
 Three Types of Search
 Search 1.0
 Focused on pages and content within them
very basic concept

 Search 2.0
 Focused on pages, content, links, authority of linking
sites
pagerank
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 Search 3.0
 Relevance is determined by content, context and
relevance for your network
people share content
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4. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
 Twitter’s growth is
explosive
 19M users
 267% growth on
quarter basis
 1250% growth
on annual basis
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5. Tweefind – Focus: Twitter
 Twitter is a busy and noisy place
 lots of users
 lots of spam
 lots of casual users
 lots of personal and not relevant content
 Potential response
 need a way to take the good content out of the noise
 need a way to give that content a “value” and display
the most valuable only
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6. Tweefind - Value Proposition
 Tweefind is a twitter search engine
 scans the popular micro-blogging service
 displays results ordered by user rank
 displays related searches coming from other sources
 Google, Bing
 Techcrunch, Mashable, NYT, Friendfeed...
 Youtube video (the most popular)
 Highest ranked twitter users
 takes links out from the tweets and shows the most
re-tweeted (re-tweet means endorsement)
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7. Tweefind – The Solution
 Tweerank
 is a measure of how popular/important a Twitter user is
 works 24/7 to assign a rank to each Twitter user
 it changes daily
 over 4M users ranked so far
 takes into account over 20 parameters, like
 # followers
 # following
 # of followers / #of following
 # of tweets
 # of RT he/she receives
 # of replies
 # of distinct users who reply
 # of distinct users who retweet
 # of RT he/she makes
 # of links the user shares
 .....
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8. Tweefind – Main interface 1/2
 Example: search for “iphone” Most searched keywords
Highest-ranked Twitter users
for the keyword “iphone” (from
Tweepfind.com)
Main results from Twitter Most re-tweeted news for
ordered by “user rank” “iphone”
Results from Friendfeed, New
York Times, Techcrunch,
Mashable, etc.
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9. Tweefind – Main interface 2/2
 Example: search for “iphone”
Buttons to switch to Google/Bing
results
Similar and relevant
search terms
Results coming from
the search engine Bing
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10. Tweefind – Relevant Link Extraction
 Example: search for
“iphone”
 Tweefind extracts links
contained in the tweets
displayed in the first page
 Searches Tweetmeme for
those links
 Displays the three most-
retweeted on the sidebar
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11. Tweefind – Plugins and Widgets
 Blog/Website widget
 Firefox/IE search plugin
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12. Tweefind – Benefits
 Filters the good content coming from highest
ranked users
 Remove noise and useless tweets from search
results
 Lots of relevant and related search results coming
from different sources, all together
 Very useful to find new great and valuable Twitter
users to follow
 One-Stop-Shop for search from multiple different
sources
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13. Tweefind – Contacts
 http://www.tweefind.com
 http://twitter.com/tweefind
 info@tweefind.com
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