Twitter is a new big giant in search engine technology after Google. Twitter is a real time conversation search Engine. These search tools are handy and useful.

1. Twit Scoop searches: http://www.twitscoop.com Every 20 seconds, Twitscoop will refresh the results of your keyword or user name search and let you know what everyone on Twitter is saying about it or him/her. It will show you the trend for your keyword popularity on Twitter.

2.TweetMeme: http://tweetmeme.com A social media voting system, Tweetmeme identifies the most popular sites being tweeted and retweeted on Twitter and gives its users the ability to vote for a topic via Retweeting it. You can even install plugin on your blog if you have a wordpress blog. Just like you see on top of this post.

3.TweepSearch: http://tweepsearch.com Allows Twitter users to identify people with similar interests. This is a good way to streamline your friend-making capabilities on Twitter by searching for people with similar jobs, like the same sports as you, or have the same hobbies.

4. Twopular: http://twopular.com/ Tracks Twitter trends over time spans of hours, days, weeks, months and custom time lines. Grouped with Google Trends, this is an important tool for measuring the buzz within the Twittersphere .

5. BackTweets: http://backtweets.com BackTweets lets you enter any URL and then will serve the search results for the Twitter profiles which have linked to that URL in their tweets. BackTweets is an amazing tool for keeping track of who is linking to your site on Twitter.

6. Tweet Scan: http://www.tweetscan.com is a simple Twitter search tool which serves Twitter search results in a Google style fashion.

7. Flaptor Twitter Search: http://twittersearch.flaptor.com is an Efficient and beautiful way to search tweets. It’s sleek design makes Twitter searching so much more enjoyable and it also offers an easy to install Firefox addon. There are no advertisements on the site.

I will digg for some more Twitter tools that will boost your productivity next week.