Could someone explain how to follow twitter posts?

I'm trying to follow what people are saying on twitter at the moment on a busy topic (1 tweet/second?).

I click on 'more' at the bottom of the page and more tweets show up. And again and again and again. Then I am using the fire fox search to look for things. Then I click refresh because 300 more tweets just came in, and I need to click on 'more' again over and over and over, then re-search for the term I'm interested in.

Is there a better way? Is there a log file somewhere to search through? Or is that part of the twitter 'charm'?

 

you can click on the individual user and read their post
you can also make Twitter list and group people into them so you don't have to track everyone running through your stream.

 

But there is no way to sift through what everyone is saying about a particular topic?

Strange.

 

Some readers have filters, like TweetDeck does.

 

I'm not sure what a filter is in this context. I looked a tweetdeck, and searched for Mozilla add ons, I did not see the ability to log anything.

It's ok, I'll just ignore the twitter streams. There were thousands regarding pubcon today, most of it marketing, repeats, and bsing. But there were some nuggets of good information as well.

I still think twitter is a strange system.



Thanks everyone for trying to help me!

 

yes

Twitter Search
vbulletin - Twitter Search

 

The first link is another presentation of the live feed. Hundreds (or thousands) of pages to click on, that would probably work well enough if there were more tweets/page or the topic was less 'exciting'. And of course the 'new tweets' is still occurring and refreshing the page (as suggested) goes back to page 1.

The second link is much more interesting. I find the wording of tweets confusing, it almost appears that you were at pubcon.

 

There is a FF add-on for twitter. TwitterFox - Firefox extension for Twitter

I used this til I switched to twhirl.

 

Tweetdeck, FTW!

 

I checked out twitter fox but did not see the ability to log them.

I did find this of interest from the twirl site:
Tweet Scan - Microblog Search

Seems a much more readable format which is always good. But it refreshes every 90 seconds and goes back to page 1 if there are no clicks/page changes regardless of how many pages back I go.

 

What do you mean, "log" them?

 

Re-read post #1.

If a new message comes in every second, and there are hundreds of pages already, there is no way to sort through them except for using search in a browser.

Next page, search
next page, search
over and over.
By then another 1000 messages have come in.
No possible way to sort through all that, if all those were able to be logged then at the end of the day they could be searched for certain key words.



It was probably a dumb idea.

 

It's actually a very good idea. I just don't know of a client that does that.
Dang I'm sure glad I don't get that many messages in one day!