Twicsy.com pretty cool but can we use for marketing?
Posted by Patrick Murphy on Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Twicsy.com is Twitter’s image search engine. Other image based search engines have sprung up recent off the back of Twitter to make it easy to search Twitter’s image database but to date, Twicsy.com is the one that is making headway and drawing traffic.
Twicsy.com makes it easy to search for specific images particularly those related to image based news. So for example, when world events occur be it an earthquake in Japan or uprising in Tunisia, Twicsy.com makes finding the images related to that news easy to find.
Twicsy.com also makes it easy to find the top trending pictures. So for example, there was a rally for Breast Cancer Awareness in London’s Oxford Circus recently. Images related to this event appear in the main categories on the Twicsy.com home page so they can be easily downloaded or shared.
The images shown on the Twicsy.com homepage are thumbnail links to images which have been uploaded to Twitter in the last hour which means the selection available on Twicsy.com is in real-time. Generally the images are pulled from Twitpic or yFrog.
If a user clicks on one of the images, the tweets relevant to that image appear alongside it so that the image can be put into context. It’s also possible to access that Twitter user’s account from there.
Users of Twicsy.com usually say the best feature of the site is its functionality. For any query, Twicsy.com will pull the relevant images from Twitter and they can then be sorted by time or by relevancy.
So whether it’s shots of the day’s news or celebrity snapshots or clips from sporting events, the quickest way to find them and share them is through Twicsy.com.
If you would like more information about Twicsy.com or any other online marketing platform, contact SiliconCloud today.
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