Tweetsheet – track multiple topics on Twitter

Twitter Search is a powerful tool. Within seconds, you can find up-to-date information and links to any topic. Queries like “:)” or “is down” are also a great way to get short snippets of entertainment. To get more out of it for myself (or others?), I built a little tool.

I use Twitter Search a lot to collect interesting links on various topics. Since Twitter Search only handles one query at a time, I found it uncomfortable to keep an eye on different queries. Therefore, I created the Tweet Sheet.

As could be guessed from the name already, this is nothing more than a simple sheet (or page, but that didn’t rhyme as good) where three different search queries can be tracked at the same time.

How to use it

Fill each of the input fields with a query and hit “refresh all”, or refresh individual fields alone.

The settings in the upper right corner allow control over the amount of items and if only tweets that contain links should be shown. I found this to be important, because it makes “harvesting” links for a certain topic easier.

Feedback is appreciated :)

Tags: code, jquery, tools, twitter

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