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Somebody needs to make a Google for Twitter

Don’t get me wrong, there’s all kinds of useful information floating around on Twitter. Unfortunately, like the rest of the World Wide Web there’s so much flotsam on the surface that it’s difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I’d love to be able to use Twitter as a resource, but right now I can count on one hand the number of truly informative users I’ve found to follow. For my tech blogging, I’m still using Google Reader, Technorati, and Techmeme for the bulk of my tips.

For the most part, recommended industry muckety-mucks on Twitter provide little more than random musings and self-promtional dreck. It makes sense that they do. After all, Twitter is an incredibly good way to create a massive number of trackbacks to your own site.

It’s frustrating, and coupled with the volume of tweets like “finished sharpening pencil #4″ it creates a real problem for people wanting to utilize the site as a tool.

Sure, there are dozens of sites that tap in to Twitter’s API dozens of different ways to provide dozens of different, targeted data feeds, but there’s no “killer app” yet, and Twitter is just begging for one.

Please. Someone. Anyone. Help.

Tags: twitter   Posted in Web 2.0