Sep 17, 2010 by Matt | Posted in Coding
Since Google rolled out Google Instant, there has been an explosion of search mashups created by enterprising developers. First there was YouTube Instant, for which the creator was offered a job at Google. Next came iTunes Instant, which lets you quickly search the iTunes store for music, netting the 15-year-old developer a 5% commission if you buy anything. (I was kicking myself for not thinking of that first…)
There is also an App Store Instant and Instantise, a collection of various instant searches…
Since everyone else is making instant searches, I took an hour or so of my time and whipped-up an Instant Twitter Search for the fun of it.
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