If you want to follow what’s happening in the world, search and find information online immediately once it’s published, real-time web search is the choice. However, the giant company like Google, Yahoo! or even the new search engine Bing haven’t offered this service yet. It’s believable that Twitter, the leader and rapidly growing of Micro-blogging social service, has a great potential and ability to perform real-time social web search. Except the original Twitter Search, we have selected 20 best real-time or almost real-time social web and Twitter search engines. Feel free to share any Twitter search web applications or other awesome real-time social search engines on comments.

General Twitter Search Engines

Twitter Search
The Twitter’s own search engine, it’s very simple and clear to use but merely sorts the result chronologically as there is no any algorithm inside. Therefor you want a advanced search engine to show the most read, most authoritative, most linked to or most retweeted items, it’s not your choice. Anyway you can subscribe the search result via RSS feed.

Twazzup
If you are a serious Twitter user, Twazzup provides you more information out of Twitter its own search engine. Twazzup is a very useful and flexible Twitter search engine that offers almost all of what Twitter Search does itself, plus a few columns of algorithmically generated results such as Featured Tweets, Top Trendmakers, Related Photos, Most Popular Links and Contributors by tweets, be retweets, by name and by date. There is also a great list of keywords based on your search results that you can use to refine your query.

Topsy
Topsy is a new kind of rapidly growing Twitter search engine with a focus on social media sites like Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg and many other communities. Topsy can help you find the most influential people on the topic you’re searching for. It ranks results by links to the items in question which is useful if it’s not exactly real-time. You can display the search results by month, week, day and hour. “Top authors today” sidebar highlights the most influential authors today and helps you filter a better result.


Scoopler
Scoopler is another great real-time search engine that combines raw chronological results with a column of results ranked by popularity. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results that updated in real-time. Scoopler also lets you keep three search queries pegged to your page for quick access.

OneRiot
OneRiot prioritizes its search results according to PulseRank, a real-time ranking algorithm that delivers search results as they emerge, ordered to reflect current social relevance on Twitter, Digg, YouTube, and other services.

Collecta
Collecta monitors the update streams of popular real-time social media blogs and sites like Twitter, WordPress, and Flickr, and shows results as they happen. Results can be filtered by status updates, comments, stories, or photos. The entire engine is built around the XMPP standard, which pushes out data on a continual basis, so that for every search you end up watching a stream that keeps updating itself. Its best features are the super-clean and simple interface, and lets you run multiple searches at once for monitoring a bunch of topics during the day.

TweetMeme
Tweetmeme is a combination of TechMeme and a standard Twitter aggregator that discovers what’s hot on Twitter. The site monitors Twitter tweets for links and determines which ones are becoming popular, then posts them on a constantly updated page.

DailyRT
DailyRT ranks the most popular Twitter retweets on the web presented for experts and novices. DailyRT has a better search function, including the capability to search only within the network of people you follow and the ability to search and find top retweeted topics from the past

Monitter
Monitter gives you a multi-column view of real-time Twitter search results with no ranking, which makes it useful for monitoring several queries at once. It allows you easily filter results by the location that Twitter users report in their profiles.

CrowdEye
CrowdEye is a Twitter Search engine that gives you stats on your query and returns not only recent tweets, but the number of tweets on a subject over time, related news articles, and related keywords. It’s useful if you want to see how a search query is trending over time.

Itpints
A new real-time web search engine search on most popular web 2.0 sites.

Yauba
Yauba is the world’s first privacy safe, real-time search engine. It’s an experimental search engine that seeks to transform the way people find information online, while providing maximum protection for their safety, security and privacy.

TweeFind
Tweefind is another standard Twitter search engine, which ranking algorithm base on several parameters including number of followers, tweets, retweets, replies, distinct users who reply and links the user shares.
Anyway its results are better than the unfiltered Twitter Search.

Twitalyzer Search
Twitalyzer Search is a proof of concept powered by Twitalyzer showing how a measure of influence can improve on Twitter’s existing search application. It shows you raw, time-ordered Twitter results but adds two relevancy numbers: the Influence and the number of followers the tweet’s author has to each tweet in the results list. Twitalyzer Search helps you find the items from the people to which other Twitter users are paying attention to.

Twingly Microblog Search
Twingly’s microblog search covers Twitter, Jaiku, Identica, Bleeper, and a few other services. It’s dedicated to microblogging and offers RSS subscription and email alerts option for your search queries. You also have an option of filtering it out by un-checking a box on the side of the page. An embeddable Twingly widget is available for displaying the latest search results on your blog or website.

Twitority
Twitority is an alternative authority based Twitter search that would allow users to restrict their searches to Twitter users with a large number of followers. It ranks Twitter posts based in part on the number of followers the poster had. You can also filter the search results by any authority, a little authority or a lot of authority.

FriendFeed Search
FriendFeed Search is a real-time search engine has the ability to track social activities quickly and points out its results update automatically and scroll down the page without refresh the page. FriendFeed’s search pulls in data from a wide variety of social media sources including Twitter, of course. The FriendFeed search includes options to save your searches or view them in a smaller pop-out window. You can also post your search on other social sites or embed the search result elsewhere.

Tweetzi
Easy to use Twitter search tool features full real-time search results and Twitter trends. A simple and elegant user interface enables users to store searchs and watch the trending topic gather steam at sidebar.

Individual Twitter Search Engines

Twitmatic
Twitmatic is a video search engine that real-time streams videos being shared on Twitter. It’s a more interesting destination than other Twitter apps competitors.

BingTweets
BingTweets combines Twitter trending topics with Bing search results, enabling you to search real-time information about the hottest topics on Twitter. You can also search for anything in the BingTweets search box and see Bing search results alongside the most recent related tweets.