dk99 introduced me to Twitterfall, which allows me to set up ‘Custom Searches’ with certain key topics so all Tweets with the keyword will be displayed. I find that it also serves the purpose of getting near-realtime updates from my friends by linking my Twitter account to it.

Now, I can keep track of all Tweets on topics I am interested in, like Window 7, Psystar, the Blackberry Storm for example. Results are pushed to my browser and I no longer need to refresh my Twitter page regularly. It allows me to get up to date information on what people say about these topics on top of my usual feeds from CNET and rss feeds of blogs.

On top of that, it also spares me the need to follow more people and this means I do not have to put up with other comments which I might find irrelevant. Incidentally, when I added “Northwest CDC” as a custom search, I find that the links on some of those Tweets no longer worked, especially those from CNA itself. That sort of confirmed dk99’s points in this blog post.

Indirectly, Twitterfall has addressed one of my perceived inadequacy of Twitter – it’s lack of an auto-update feature. Now I no longer need to regularly refresh to check for updates. So, if you had always preferred Twitter over Plurk, check out Twitterfall to get a renewed experience of Twitter.

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