TwitterScope is a nice new Twitter addition developed by Canadian Web Designer Stuart Robertson. It comes in the form of a Bookmarklet and all you have to do is drag a link to your browser toolbar. Full instructions can be found at the original blog.
If you have experience with Bookmarklets you can also use this: TwitterScope
Then visit the page of a random Twitter profile and click the Bookmarklet entitled “TwitterScope” in your browsers bookmarks bar.
A new window will pop up showing that person’s tweets AND replies to his tweets. Suddenly you are listening to dialogs instead of monologues in Twitter.
After using it for a while I realized that this is exactly what I have been missing in Twitter. I often aimlessly browse through profiles trying to get a sense of what the conversation is about. Before you know it you will have 6 windows open with different profiles looking for who replied to whom in different topics.
With TwitterScope the whole conversation is just a click away.
that works faster than Twitter search!
Just tried it and it sucked… only saw the last conversion, althought the previous one was only a few hours ago! How dissappointing…
http://tinyurl.com/5bldhq
it showed the last conversation, then missed the next 2 or 3 and the next one did show on the scope.
BTW: checked it with others, and if it DOES work properly its a great app!
Yup you’re right, the results I get from search.twitter.com are just as lousy.
To make a long story short: nice app Stuart!
Finally!! This is great.
Cool. Is there anyway to generate a webpage showing a “specific” conversation. I’d like to be able to link to a short back-and-forth I had with a specific user only.
more convenient too…
If you want to post a link to the profile you weren’t seeing the results you expected with TwitterScope I can take a look.
TwitterScope is reliant on the data that gets sent back from the Twitter Search API. Since it’s just a way to interact with that data, it’s only as good as what they send back via JSON. You should try some searches for @username and from:username at http://search.twitter.com/ and see if they’re working properly.