The power of Twitter comes from the fact that brands can monitor their growth in the social media via tracking user generated tweets. Many third party applications harness the data generated by twitter by providing easy way to find relevant articles. Twitter itself has a service called search.twitter.com to find tweets but its not enough and adds less value to users such as marketers.

The messages posted on Twitter known do have an expiry date on them. In the initial days of Twitter, Tweets could be seen for around a month but as the service grew more popular, the time duration of Tweets gradually decreased. According to Twitter, currently the limitation on search index is around 1.5 weeks but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of Tweets per day continues to grow. Hence in such a small period of window, it becomes quintessential to get the desired result while searching the Tweets. The following are the 10 best ways to get hands on Twitter Tweets.

Below are the 10 ways to search tweets in Twitter. They are not put in the order of relevance but in a random order.

1. Tweetmeme is the one of the famous sites that helps users to know the latest trend seen in Tweets in Twitter. Additionally, it also provides free analytical services for a Twitter link. It is a one stop portal for Tweets and everything about them.

2. “The Archivist” is a desktop tool which archives the Tweets so that the user can later use the information to study them and find a trend/pattern in the Tweets. Since Twitter has defined expiry date for every Tweet, this application becomes more than handy to study the Tweets offline. The tool also provides data visualtion feature for better analysis.

3. Tweetscan is another website that allows users to see the Tweets related to particular word or phrase typed in its search engine. If a user subscribes for email alerts, he or she will get emails as and when his keywords are mentioned in Twitter.

4. Another means of retrieving the Tweets could be with the use of “Twapper Keeper” which will archive Tweets based on the given query. Once a query is set up, Twapper Keeper will scan Twitter for that particular issue and then archive the Tweets it finds on its own servers. Once the Tweets are archived, those can be arranged into categories of one’s choice.

5. BackTweets is another Twitter search engine that can be used for searching links on Twitter. By entering the URL of the site on the blog, website or business on the Internet, one can view all the Tweets related to that site.

6. Twinbox is an add-in for Twitter that lets a user directly pull all the Tweets from his/her contact list onto Microsoft Outlook. Once the Tweets make way to the Inbox, a user can search, manage and group them like the mails.

7. Tweetake allows Tweeters to back up their Twitter accounts including Tweets, followers, friends and favorites. It posses a limitation of backing up only the first 1000 contacts. Basically it is used as personal archive of data which can be stored for safe keeping.

8. Topsy allows users to find the Tweets pertaining to the keywords/query. Among most of the application out there, topsy has unique features such as allowing user to find the most tweeted articles from certain domain. For example, what is the most tweeted article from globalthoughtz.com. Further, topsy provides a list of top contributers with their influence score. Topsy provide easy interface and adds value to the twitter search.

9. Collecta, a real-time search engine, allows users to see Tweets related to the keywords or queries. It also allows the users to see the results from sites, like Flickr, YouTube, blogging sites, Jaiku etc., other than Twitter as well.

10. OneRiot, yet another real-time search engine, allows users to see the Tweets for a keyword in its results page itself. It also has a separate section in its results page which pulls two latest Tweets from the Twitter Search for that particular keyword. Recently, OneRiot has been incorporated in the Twitter itself. If you see the trends in twitter then it has been provided by OneRiot.

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