Mar 9th BackTweets API and Feedback

As part of our announcements on Friday, we released a Twitter-related service called, BackTweets:

Announced alongside BackType Connect today, BackTweets is a fresh new take on a Twitter search engine: It un-shortens and catalogs URLs sent via Twitter. We believe that, even though BackTweets was created to fill a piece of BackType Connect’s total conversation search offering, it will also become an important player by itself and we are glad to see it has gotten its own clean look. —Phil Glockner, ReadWriteWeb

Our initial hope was to gauge interest before including an API; we’ve since received a great response. Some are even calling it the "new Technorati" – not bad for two days work. Today, we put up a simple API for the service; for now, you’ll have to sign up for BackType to get an API key to use.

We’re looking fwd to seeing developers make use of the simple, but powerful functionality of BackTweets!

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AlexSchleber says:
Mar 10th at 8:10 pm

See if you can't sell this to Twitter, this really should be integrated under a “mentions” tab that combines Search.twitter.com results for “@username” like RT's, mentions, and now, thanks to you, non-RT-credited backtweets.

Jens Schroeder says:
Mar 12th at 4:57 pm

backtweets is really great! Thanks very much for this. Do you think about integrating some numbers in your search: “xx different twitter users have linked to this website in the past four weeks” or something like that (like the technorati authority)? Then you would definitely become the new Technorati…

OneMoreGadget says:
Jan 4th at 11:46 pm

I would love if someone could develop a widget for wordpress that gives you a sample of the last 5 to 10 tweets that were posted about your website. (users website). It seems all the apps, like newstweet etc. have search functions but not the backtweet functionality of reading URLs that have been shortened-so most tweets are missed.

I’m sure once an app like that is created it will be huge, and, if you guys do it, I want to know about it!

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