Tinker? Stinker more like!

Tinker. is a new search engine that promises to provide us with the latest news on what people are Twittering. It's got a nice feature in that you can embed a widget on your site and allow people to tweet in your event stream. That's quite good. However, as a search tool it's pretty dire to be honest. Let's take a look at what information Tinker is giving me and compare it to a direct Twitter search for the same subject:

Most recent tweet from Tinker on Chrome OS: 20 minutes ago
Most recent tweet from Twitter on Chrome OS: 10 seconds ago

Most recent tweet from Tinker on Arctic Monkeys: 22 minutes ago
Most recent tweet from Twitter on Arctic Monkeys: 30 seconds ago

Most recent tweet from Tinker on the Getty Center: 26 minutes ago
Most recent tweet from Twitter on the Getty Center: 20 seconds ago

Moreover, in order to use this thing I have to sign up for it; I can't see any way of doing a search without this step, and they also want my Twitter details, which don't get verified with Twitter.

I hope that you appreciate that I've just wasted 5 minutes of my life looking at this thing so that you don't have to!

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Comments

[Hazel Edmunds]

Your five minutes are much appreciated.