What is Twingly?
Twingly is a spam-free blog search engine. Yes, spam-free. As in: no spam.
We use this search engine as the basis for developing kick-ass products. Right now, the two most popular are Twingly Blogstream - a widget connecting traditional media to the Blogosphere, and Twingly Screensaver - a visual representation of the real-time state of the blogosphere.
While our eventual goal is nothing short of world dominance, we are currently focusing our efforts on European blogs. However, our index already includes blogs from all over the world and is expanding rapidly.
Spam-free? Really?
Yep, Twingly is (99,99%) spam-free.
How do weaccomplish this stunning feat? Well, we work our way outwards from selected high quality blogs, discovering and including only those that are linked directly or indirectly to the quality “seed” blogs.
This methodology enables us to “cut of” whole branches of blogs whenever our users locate the occasional spam blog.
Why use Twingly instead of Technorati, Google or Sphere?
We develop the world’s best spam-free blog search engine.
We strive to provide higher quality search results and better community features than any other engine.
I can’t find my blog posts!
Sorry, our bad. To remedy this: ping us and make sure you’re reasonably popular among your friends. Also make sure that your RSS feed validates properly.
Are you spammer? Then you won’t find your blog posts here.
How do I ping automatically?
Add http://rpc.twingly.com/ to your blog tool's list of ping services. That way, Twingly will be notified every time you write a new blog post.
Blog platforms that support automatic pings:
- Wordpress
- B2
- Movable Type
- Typepad
Blog platforms that doesn't support automatic pings:
- Wordpress.com
- Blogger
How do I ping manually?
If your blogging platform doesn’t support automatic pings, you can ping us manually.
Go to http://twingly.com/ping. Enter the url of your latest entry, your RSS feed or even easier – your blog’s front page url.
Twingly finds my blog posts, but they’re not showing up at the Twingly Partner Site I’ve linked to
Sit tight for a while. Depending on when your blog post was published and when we received the ping from your blog, it may take a while before it shows up in our partners’ widgets.
Check your RSMake sure you publish the entire content of your blog post .
Half an hour has gone by and there’s still nothing! What now?
Check your RSS feed. Are links published as html-links in the feed? Is it publishing your entire blog post? If you’re just publishing a section of your blog post and the link to the Twingly Partner Site is not in that section, you won’t get a link back form the Partner site. Make sure you publish your entire blog post.
Also, try to find your blog post through searching on twingly.com. If you find your post, please contact the Twingly Partner directly, since the problem is probably not located within our system.
Be aware that the Twingly Partner Sites can themselves limit, exclude or ban blogs due to unsuitable words, illegal content or the like. We don’t have any control over what the Twingly Partners are doing with the data we’re throwing at them.
Still doesn’t work? Please send a mail to support@twingly.com.