TwittStorm: The Fastest Way to Monitor Twitter Conversations

Breaking news is what Twitter does best. Whenever something huge happens both users and journalists turn to tweets to find out exactly what’s happening and to get pictures or videos. Monitoring this live stream of events is important to the media and companies that have a reputation to uphold. There are many services which offer this, including Twitter themselves; the search function can be a quick way to get hold of popular tweets on a story or event. However, they’re often lacking.

TwittStorm is a new take on monitoring Twitter in realtime, one that looks great and is fast enough that it seems more promising than most Twitter apps. Let’s take it for a spin and see how it holds up.

What Does TwittStorm Do?

Well first, let’s differentiate between what TwittStorm and the Twitter search function do. On Twitter, a search will reveal tweets which have been retweeted and favourited. This is helpful for finding authoritative tweets on a subject such as the opinions of popular tweeters. It’s not so good when you need updates fast.

Popular subjects on the homescreen

On Twittstorm the homescreen will show popular keywords currently receiving a lot of tweets on Twitter. Twittstorm offers a realtime feed of any keyword a user might need to make inquiries about. So for example, by searching the word ‘Yankees’ you’ll receive a live feed of every tweets containing that word, not just popular tweets.

Twittstorm isn’t simply a script with a pretty face. It uses Twitter’s stream API directly so it’s fast and reliable. If it’s posted on Twitter, Twittstorm gets the tweet straight away no matter what.