Two New Ways to Mine for Twitter Gold

Two new tools have launched that make it easy to search and mine Twitter for conversation data.

The first, called Twittermittent, pulls geo-tagged data and charts from the last few days. You can also compare terms. Here's a chart I pulled using Twittermittent for the search phrase lunch. Clearly a lot of us like to eat around noon. So Twitter may be bigger on the East Coast than it is on the West.

The second comes via Download Squad from Emily Chang and friends. Twitterverse identifies the biggest memes and organizes them by tags. It too has a search tool.

Both Twittermittent and Twitterverse are useful, however, they only capture a sliver of the micro blogging conversation. Buzz around Jaiku is starting to build significantly. Over time, all of these utilities - including Technorati blog search - will get rolled up under aggregate live web search tools that grab it all. I would bet on one or more of the big players to make that happen through time-based sorting.