Topsy Launches Twitter Expert Search; Better Options Exist, Matt McGee, Search Engine Land (Jul 15)
Topsy introduced a new feature to help people find tweeters to follow - the Topsy Expert Search. .
Search Engine Land wasn't impressed with results. It found - "The Topsy blog post says that results are ranked “based on influence and topical focus,” but it seems that may be measured by how often you mention certain words in your tweets and how often you get retweeted."
Instead, use the username search in Twitter - just enter name and Twitter will show Name Results for the name, and Real Time results. This assumes that you know the name of the expert you want to follow.
Another method that I like - use CloudLet to show names of authors in a tag cloud.
Posted by Gwen at July 19, 2010 02:10 PM