Twingly recently announced their federated microblog search tool and I've been playing around with it. The tool includes results from the big guns, namely Jaiku and Twitter but also some more regionally grounded venues like Bleeper in Germany and Bloggy in Sweden.

Here @1000heads we spend a lot of time thinking about the unique role different social tools play in the way we all publish content online. The thing most unique about microblogging is the important role played by immediate experience in the content. Posting is more synaptic and often less 'for posterity' than in other social mediascapes. In that vein, what would be really cool is if they added stronger trended visualisation of the results so I can see 'now' in better context. Am I the only one who wants to see if banana-eating tweets have increased this month? I don't think so...