Twitter search sites: The best and the rest

Scoopler is another deceptively simple real-time search product that, like Twazzup, combines raw chronological results with a column of results ranked by popularity. This service doesn't have access to the full Twitter 'fire hose' of data, but it does use additional methods to try to pick up more content than the Twitter Search API provides -- especially items that contain links. Scoopler also lets you keep three search queries pegged to your page for quick access, although it doesn't run them in the background like Collecta does.

Scoopler also scans Digg, Delicious, Flickr and Indentica. It earns a spot on our top-three list due to its clear combination of raw and ranked results.