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title: "Nambu: Getting closer to twitter for everyone"
date: 2009-04-08
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/04/08/nambu-getting-closer-to-twitter-for-everyone/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# Nambu: Getting closer to twitter for everyone

Although this post will not go extremely in depth into the pedagogical implications of twitter, it will take a look at a new [Twitter](http://twitter.com/) application called [Nambu](http://www.nambu.com/) and explore whether or not it is getting us closer to a view of twitter that has less and less to do with friends, and more and more to do with search.

So, for the past few months, I have been explaining twitter to those who are uninitiated, as the best search engine that you aren’t using. I describe how google is a search of the past, and how twitter searches what is happening right now. We go into how that can be good and bad, and we eventually come around to a discussion of “what would you look for if you believed that at any given moment someone was struggling with the exact same problem you are right now?”

Up until now, I have also recommended that people use [Tweetdeck](http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/) or Tweetgrid in order to do those kinds of topic searches, but since I saw [Nambu on Read/Write web](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nambu_a_better_twitter_client_than_tweetdeck.php)the other day, I have been truly astonished at how good it is at compiling all of my searches into one space.

I can type them in one after another and then I can monitor them in isolation or in one stream. What this means is that even someone without a twitter account, can have a single stream of every topic that they could care about. While this isn’t a good sign for adding to the network, it is truly a great step forward for people who aren’t [early adopters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_%28business%29).

(Reading this back, I’m not sure that I am making a whole lot of sense. However, please go and[check the program out](http://www.nambu.com/)(if you are on a Mac) and see for yourself if you think it would help more people to see the value in connected learning.)

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