According to Twitturly, due to recent changes to Twitter’s API, Twitturly is slowly dying. There’s a plea on their status page for Twitturly users to contact the poeple that can help fix this, namely: @ev">Evan Williams, @biz">Biz Stone, @al3x">Alex Payne, @_evan">Evan Weaver.
The graphic below shows how the number of Tweets Twitturly processes in a day has dropped dramatically since the API changes.
For those of you that haven’t heard of Twitturly, here’s their blurb:
Twitt(url)y, or twitturly if you prefer, is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
The easiest way to understand how Twitturly works is, if you are familiar with digg, then you already know essentially what we do. If you don’t know what digg is, then here is a quick run-down: On digg, and twitturly, people “vote” for an item. The more votes it gets the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page and as the votes increase it gets displayed higher up the home page. Twitturly is different than digg because instead of voting on our site, you vote by participating on twitter. Each time that you send a link to your followers on twitter, twitturly takes a note of it and applies your vote to that URL.
You can follow the creator on Twitter here.
thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.