Last month, I enthusiastically declared that Summize “offers a better Twitter search.” The company has apparently taken that to heart, re-focusing their entire business on scouring conversations taking place on Twitter. The company eats their own dog food too, and has been monitoring their brand continually on Twitter to find feature ideas and respond, including increasing the number of results per page following a request I made a couple weeks ago (at least, I like to think my request had something to do with it ;) ).
A few additional neat features have been added since my review, such as a “View Conversation” link with each tweet that makes it easy to follow the back and forth between different users. Paul Stamatiou wrote a nice review over the weekend bringing us all up to speed on some additional new Summize features.
Tonight, the company is rolling out local search, so you can filter your results based on proximity. For example, search for “McCain near:"phonix az" and you can see what people in the GOP’s Presidential Candidate’s home state are tweeting about him. [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/summize-local.gif" caption="" credit="" alt=""] You can also access the local search via the Advanced Options page of Summize so you don't have to memorize the syntax.
The local search feature is also essentially a replacement for Twitter Local – just enter in your city without any additional search terms and you can see all people Tweeting near you, a feature I like to try out once and a while since I live in a fairly remote area with only a few Twitter users. Once again, Summize isn’t the first-mover here, but they are integrating all of useful third-party Twitter search services into one, which makes it a really robust tool that I’m personally keeping open all day in one of my dozen or so tabs.