There is a lot of buzz around the web about Twitter and Real-Time Search. In June of 2007 we launched the TWERQ Hive, which is a Real-Time Collaborative Search. The TWERQ Hive allows groups of people searching for the same thing to easily contribute to a Hive List of useful results in Real-Time. This completely different then Twitter but there would be a number of benefits to combining the functionality of both systems.

Today, I am happy to announce the launching of a new test feature, and the beginning of this integration into TWERQ and the Hive. I see Twitter as not only as a great way to communicate, search and discover interesting things but also as a way to assist people in finding useful information and in using the TWERQ Hive. For example, one feature of the Hive allows you to invite people to collaborate on a particular search. This could easily be translated into a “Tweet for help” or something to that effect. It would also be useful to be able share Hive Lists and results found on TWERQ through Twitter. These are just 2 of many examples where integrating Twitter into TWERQ just makes sense.

We have lots of ideas but with this early test feature launch we want to know how you think Twitter should be integrated into TWERQ. By releasing this now, while not yet fully developed and functional gives us a great opportunity to collect your feedback and build in all the functionality that you the users will find useful. Please visit TWERQ to give it a try!

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