TwitterSearch for Opera
Find-out what the Twittersphere is saying about anything!
The TwitterSearch extension is a search and notifier tool for Opera,
that searches the Twittersphere to tell you
what people are saying on any subject.
Search for the name of your product, brand or company;
follow your favourite artist or football team; or just
revel in the endless stream-of-consciousness
that's poured into Twitter every second!
TwitterSearch can give you instant, live results for any
search; it can also monitor searches in the
background, then notify you whenever somebody
Tweets something new on the subject.
I was commissioned to write this, and several other extensions, by
Opera themselves,
as part of a project that's still ongoing
(and from which there'll be more stuff to come
)
Main features
- Instant Twitter search
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Search for keywords and phrases on Twitter and get instant, live results. Results are split into pages of 20 Tweets, so they're quicker to load and easier to navigate.
- Automatic search and notify
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The extension can monitor a query in the background, and notify you when there are new results — the toolbar-icon is updated to tell you how many new Tweets there are. You can also control the update frequency, with settings that range from 5 minutes up to 3 hours.
- Understands Twitter keyword-syntax
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TwitterSearch understands the special keyword-syntax used in Tweets:
"#hashtag"
(Tweets that are tagged with a particular hash-tag)"@username"
(Tweets from a particular user)
Hashtags and usernames are automatically converted into search-links, so you can quickly search within results. Links to external pages are also parsed, and can be opened directly from the dialog (ie. without having to go to Twitter first).
- History and auto-complete
- The extension will permanently remember the last 100 things you searched for, and offer them as auto-complete suggestions when you're typing in the search-box.
(There's also a little easter-egg hidden in the
UI, that you can activate
by typing "-opera-shock!"
)
Find out more
- TwitterSearch for Opera (in Opera's extensions directory)