January 16, 2010
by Elias Shams
In addition to twitter and facbook, here is another great social media site who has played an important role to get people of Haiti and Iran to get their voice out. The site is twicsy, a startup right here in Washington, DC.
What’s unique about twicsy that others missing, is their bad ass real-time image search which has got me glued to them since their launch back in June of last year, shortly after disputed presidential election in Iran where no media were allowed in the country.
. Real Time image search for Haiti
. Real Time image search for Iran
For anything you query, they pull up related images that have been shared on Twitter. You can sort them by time or by relevance. The results are awesome – pretty solid! Instead of using Twitter’s search API, they grab the images from twitter by indexing all tweets with image links and populates them from that.
The site features a main page with all image shared over Twicsy with the default images from top trending topics for Pics on Twicsy. The images shown on the homepage are based on contextual tags and user analysis which is one of their main advantages over any site I have ever experienced.
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Next month, Station 9 will open it’s doors to anyone with a love of music, dancing, and drinking for one of the biggest parties in Washington DC this Spring.
Elias Shams
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