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http://summize.com/ http://summize.com/

• TrevorJ 18y ago
  That does do a decent job if I already know what micro topic I want to hear about like "Plaxo" or "Earthquake" but it's not a great tool for discovering what the hot topic is for certain subsets of people. I'd love to know what the hot topic of debate is among political circles for instance, but if I type in "Senate Bill" I'm not discovering what what people in the know are talking about, I'm defining the topic already by my search term which limits the discoveries I could make. If I type in "sports" I get a bunch of returns that use that word, but that doesn't tell me what people who are in the inner circle of the sporting world are thinking about today-who knows, they might be Tweeting about How NFL Players are organizing aid relief to China, but I'm going to miss seeing that since the search term doesn't show up. What I want to be able to do is to see what the top 100 or so Twitterers in any given field are talking about without having to know beforehand what I'm searching for. Summarize is a great tool in it's own right, just not the same tool as I'm talking about :-) -Edit the "trending topics" does something similar, but that's an aggregate of all tweets, not a feed from people connected with specific areas of expertise.