Whatcha Talkin Bout Willis?

By this time you have prob­a­bly heard about Twit­ter.  If not, here is a quick sum­mary.  Twit­ter is a site where you, and the rest of the world get 140 char­ac­ters to answer one ques­tion “what are you doing?”

Now the com­mon first reac­tion by some­one who dis­cov­ers Twit­ter is to scrunch up their face, tilt their head to the side and scratch it, sigh, tilt their head back again, shrug their shoul­ders and say “huh?”  “What is the big deal?”

Well shortly there­after you begin to dis­cover that on Twit­ter peo­ple are shar­ing thoughts and opin­ions on every­thing under the sun in a very con­cise and easy to under­stand for­mat.  Bet­ter yet the for­mat is con­stantly evolv­ing.  Twit­ter also makes it pos­si­ble to fol­low bril­liant thinkers like John Moore, Pete Black­shaw, and Guy Kawaski, as you fol­low “what they do.”

Still, the whole thing can seem a bit over­whelm­ing and dis­jointed.  That is where the new Twit­ter Search (for­merly Summize.com) comes into play.  Sim­ply type in a term and you can search in real time what peo­ple are talk­ing about.  Search Day­ton, or Obama, or McCain, Pizza, Reds, Apple, what­ever — Twit­ter search will aggre­gate the results so that you can begin to make sense of it all.  Bet­ter yet, it is equipped with an RSS feed so that you can track the con­ver­sa­tion as it evolves.  Track men­tions of your name, your employer, your friends, and on and on.

So do you won­der what Willis is talk­ing about?  Well I am not sure if Willis (Todd Bridges) uses Twit­ter, but you can find a whole bunch of peo­ple talk­ing about him and darn near any­thing else by using Twit­ter Search.  Give it a try, and share the inter­est­ing things you find with your comments.

Twit­ter Search