Website: http://sideline.yahoo.com/
Yahoo has released an open source desktop program called Sideline (sideline.yahoo.com) that can track Twitter keywords in real time, once again demonstrating the influence of Twitter's instant information search. Sideline is built on Adobe Air and is a tool that monitors Twitter keywords, allowing users to obtain real-time updates on the latest popular keywords on Twitter or the mentions of user-defined keywords. The program has an automatic refresh function, and users can choose to automatically refresh data every 1 minute or 1 hour. There will be a reminder when refreshing, and customers can also choose to monitor only information from certain Twitter users.
A highlight of this program is that users can create search groups and integrate the monitoring results of multiple keywords related to the group. In addition, its advanced search filter is also very practical, which can filter the monitoring results by people, tags, and emoticons. Industry insiders said that this is actually a user interface program developed based on Twitter's advanced search function. The author of the article said that although the tool is practical and suitable for monitoring keywords, it is estimated that it will not be very attractive to most users because the program itself is not a functional client and Twitter messages cannot be sent on it.
