From Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee working for the Windows Live team, here comes a Twitter search engine built on Windows Azure. It is not by any means a commercial product but a good proof of concept.
The search functionality with no options checked is exactly the same as search.twitter.com.
Checking Search Near Me finds all tweets posted by people who are within 30 miles of your geographical location (requires JavaScript). Your geographical location is determined from your IP address while the geographical location of the tweets is determined from the location fields of the Twitter profiles of the authors. Nice way to find out what people in your area are thinking about local news.
Checking Sort By Follower Count is an attempt to jump on the authority based Twitter search bandwagon. Follower counts are obtained via the Google Social Graph API.
Checking Limit to People I Follow requires you to also specify your user name and then all search results are filtered to only return results from people you follow (requires JavaScript). This feature only works for a small subset of Twitter users that have been encountered by a crawler the author wrote. The application is crawling Twitter friend lists as you read this and anyone the author follows should already have their friend list crawled. If it doesn’t work for you, check back in a few days. It’s been slow going since Twitter puts a 100 request per hour cap on crawlers.
Dare also mentions in his blog the likes and dislikes of developing on windows azure.
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