VideoSurf Brings Video Search to Twitter » VideoSurf BlogVideoSurf Brings Video Search to Twitter Jun 18, 20098:00 PDT
Videosurf.com is now powering video searches from within Twitter!
Anyone on Twitter (whether they follow @videosurf or not) can now search through VideoSurf’s rapidly growing index of over 50 billion visual moments from great sites like YouTube, CNN, ESPN, Hulu, MTV, MSN, Comedy Central, and more without ever leaving their Twitter stream. By combining the Twitter API and the bit.ly API with our own VideoSurf API, VideoSurf has created a mashup that gives you one more reason to watch video all day long.
Performing a VideoSurf search on Twitter is easy:
1. In the Twitter post field, simply type @videosurf
2. then type “s” (as in search)
3. then a description of the video you want to search for
Within a few moments, VideoSurf’s Twitter Bot replies back to you with links to up to three videos from your search’s results!
If, for example, you were looking for videos of President Obama, you could tweet the message:
@videosurf s obama
Powered by VideoSurf’s innovative computer vision technology that delivers the most relevant search results around, the videos you want to watch are now just a simple Tweet away.
The Applications for Twitter Applications
As mobile Tweeting continues to grow in popularity, the increased ability to watch video on phones allows the VideoSurf Twitter bot to return video results within mobile applications like Twitterific and Orangatame’s Twitterberry. Additionally, with Safari’s future support of HTML 5’s Flash-less Video tag, and Quicktime X’s rumored ability to play Flash video, even iPhone users may soon be able to take VideoSurf video search results with them wherever they can Tweet.
The VideoSurf Twitter bot allows video searching from within stand alone Twitter desktop applications like Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, and Twadget, from Outlook with TwInbox, as well as from Twitter browser extensions like Friendbar. Other third party apps would allow you to search VideoSurf’s video results from your system tray, message forums, Yahoo! Messenger or Google Chat, even from inside Microsoft Excel. Anywhere you can Tweet, you can search!
Have a Twitter account? Try your own search now!
For updates on this new feature, as well as links to great videos and the rest of the goings on here at VideoSurf, be sure to follow us at @videosurf!
