Hello Tinkerers! Today, Tinker is introducing some exciting updates. TechCrunch posted about how our project is evolving, Tinker Is Becoming a More Powerful Twitter Trends Discovery Engine, and we want to tell you about our new features here too.
1. People Directory & Real-Time People Search
Ever wonder who’s writing all those tweets beyond the usual suspects of Ashton and Demi and twelebrities like iJustine? Tinker’s new, comprehensive People Directory helps you discover the wide world of who’s microblogging and where. Our People Directory makes it easy for users to find, follow and filter relevant and influential microbloggers. You can search for people across multiple categories: by name, location, profession (e.g., search for everyone who works in social media or conservative politics or even geeks), popularity in verticals such as music and movies, conference organizers, and trendspotters on Tinker.
2. Semantic Types of Streams: Events, News, Celebrities, Topics
Tinker now allows a large range of topics to be tracked semantically–creating one of the largest collections of what people are currently talking about on Twitter. We’ll be adding more social media sources soon, such as Friendfeed, Facebook, and others.
3. Featured and Top Trends
We now feature a full list of top Twitter trends in movies, music, TV, people, concerts, news, and more, so you can follow the latest-real-time trends–all from one page.
4. Distributed Network: New Widgets and Apps
Tinker is now running more than 50 Million widgets and applications a month across a distributed network. New features include adding widgets in different sizes and colors, as well as live streaming video.
Our widgets let you distribute the conversation about you or your project, brand, or blog on your own site, and add an interactive dimension to your site by letting people log in directly to add a tweet on your site. If you have a movie, a book, a party, an event, a blog, or anything you want to promote, after you create a stream, take a look our widgets! It’s a great way to add a real-time dimension to your site and surface buzz.
We’re continually working on making Tinker the best place to view real-time conversations on any topic, brand, or news event. If you have ideas for us on how to make Tinker work even better, please let us know.
We live for feedback from our users. Email us at support AT tinker.com.
