To enter the competition just follow these 2 simple steps:

1. Tweet @WTF with a topic you want to receive updates for (eg "@wtf oil spill"):

2. Just click here to tweet this message: 
   @WTF, the simple update service, is giving away a new iPhone 4! Just RT this & tweet any topic to @wtf for a chance to win (via @WTF)

Upcoming Giveaways

Scoopler will be giving away more prizes over the coming weeks too, so if you don't win now, don't feel bad. 

To find out about the next giveaway, just track any topic with @WTF and we will tweet you an @reply with the details.

What is WTF?!

WTF is a simple service to stay up-to-date with the topics that you care about over Twitter.  By tweeting an @reply to WTF with your topic, you will get updates whenever something important happens about your topic.  Try "@wtf oil spill"  or "@wtf worldcup" and we'll keep you up-to-date via @replies.

Contest Rules

1. You must be actively tracking a topic with WTF (step 1 of How to Win above) at the time of selection
2. You must have tweeted the message saying you're using WTF (step 2 of How to Win above)
3. Contest will end on July 14th, 2010 at 12pm PST.
4. Selection of winner: one giveaway winner will be randomly selected
5. Prize: a new Apple iPhone 4
6. Mobile Provider: the iPhone 4 is compatible with the AT&T network in the United States.
   
7. You may only enter once.  Anyone found to be using multiple accounts to enter the contest will be ineligible and is liable to have their accounts suspended by Twitter.  See here
   
8. Winner will be contacted via a direct message from @WTF and will have 2 business days to respond with information requested, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

...No more Nexus One.  Details to win an iPhone 4 will be up in a minute!  Stay tuned!

Ever wished that you could get the latest updates for a topic you are interested in?

Well, now you can with our awesome new Twitter product, @wtf.  All you have to do is tweet @wtf with the topic you are interested in and it will tweet you the most important links throughout the day!  Get started by tweeting from your favorite Twitter client now or let us do it for you by going to http://scoopler.com/wtf. 

Try it out and let us know your feedback either by commenting here or emailing feedback[at]scoopler[dot]com

-- The Scoopler Team.

Time to get 100% of the scoop!

Scoopler is proud to announce that it has struck a partnership with Twitter to make 100% of tweets (aka the "Full Firehose") searchable in realtime through Scoopler.com.  Now when you want to get the scoop on the latest information, you can be certain that you are seeing everything that is shared through Twitter along with our other sources.  As always, Scoopler will provide the most relevant and up-to-date results available on the web and it will only get better with even more information for you to search on.

We've been working closely with Twitter for the past two years and appreciate their on-going efforts to cultivate the relationship and support us as we grow.  This partnership highlights those efforts with us as well as with the Twitter community at large.  You can check out twitter's blog on this.

All links, videos and images share through Twitter already available on scoopler.com along with a majority of tweets.  The remainder will be available as soon as infrastructure upgrades are complete.  We will announce the completion of this upgrade in the near future

Thanks for getting the scoop on Scoopler.

-- The Scoopler Team --

Hi,

Scoopler has just cranked out a whole new site.  Users have spoken about how we can make it easier for them to get the latest info and stay up-to-date moment by moment.  Today we're announcing the Scoopler beta v2.  We've brought the Top Scoops and videos to the home page, accelerated search to milliseconds, and made it easier than ever to share what you care about with one-click sharing to your favorite networks.

Scoopler puts a premium on the timeliness of content.  We believe that for you to stay current with the world, your friends, or your business you need to always have the latest information at your fingertips.  Scoopler search results, as always, are updated moment-by-moment by pulling the most relevant information, links, videos and images from thousands of conversations happening right now across the world.

Here are some of the great moments to use scoopler:

1. "Something big" just happened
2. You want to follow the latest developments as they happen
3. You want to know what people are saying right now
4. Other *ahem* outdated search engines are still sending you to yesterday's links

In other news, we've also rolled out a new feedback widget.  Look for the feedback link at the bottom, or the handy tab we've added to the search results page.  It only takes seconds to let us know what's on your mind and we'd love to build it for you.

Thanks,

The Scoopler Team

Just wanted to drop a note to those who asked.  Search is ridiculously, faster.  AJ quietly pushed some awesome improvements yesterday evening and now most results are essentially instant.

Happy scooping,

Ben. 

Always know the top story for your interests.

We just launched Scoopler Top 10s on twitter. Scoopler Top 10s make it easy to keep up with the latest info about what you care about.  When something hits the top of one a category on Scoopler.com we'll tweet it out to you right away.  On average, it's just about 10 tweets a day.  If you're tired of checking back constantly to a website to know what's happening or if you're tired of getting every last tweet of your favorite blog jamming your feed, then try this out.

Follow these twitter IDs:

@Top10WorldBiz - Top stories in World and Business
@Top10Gaming - Top stories in the Gaming universe
@Top10Technology - Top stories in Tech
@Top10Entertain - Top stories in Entertainment or just to entertain you
@Top10Sports - Top stories in sports
@Top10Lifestyle - Top stories in Lifestyle interests
@Top10Politics - Top stories in Politics
@Top10Science - Top stories in Science
@Top10Scoops - Top stories from across the real-time web

or see them all here:

@scoopler/topten

Check it out!

As always, we love to hear from you.  Let us know if you like it, how to make it better, or anything else you want. Email feedbackATscooplerDOTcom or leave your comments below!

Enjoy!

I am stoked to have joined Scoopler, so after months of staring at realtime results, I'm proud to blog my first thoughts on the world of realtime search...

Recent positive feedback and honest smackdown of a large, multi-colored competitor has spurred me to comment on the state of realtime search and reaffirm the visionary position of Scoopler.

Let's be blunt, most of the live information being posted through twitter, digg, justin.tv or elsewhere isn't relevant to you. If you were to stand in front of the jet-engine equivalent of the real-time web, not only would the noise be deafening, you couldn't hear anyone telling you good information like "it's probably not safe to stand in front a jet engine." What's beautiful about the breeze though (to force the analogy) is that there really are people speaking those good tidbits of information amongst all the noise; signals that we can hear if filtered smartly. And that's the lofty goal of real-time search engines: be the noise-cancelling headsets of the real-time web.

So what does it take? A lot of attempts seem to take an algorithm based on tweet count and then display the results like a standard search engine. That's great, but real-time search isn't used the same way as static search. Realtime information is constantly shifting to the next important development. Think Tiger Woods accident, to attack, to scandal. How fast did that happen again? I still have whiplash from the car crash. Real-time search isn't just about the algorithm, it's also about the delivery. It's the difference between the cheapo earphones and the best noise isolating headphones (yeah, they're better than bose).

For any developing search topic, Scoopler delivers the complete picture based on our three principals: filter, live-update, and live-feed.  Scoopler Popular shares has the filtered, noise-cancelled goodness you'd expect.  Popular shares also updates live right when something changes (something we're working on making more obvious). Finally, the Live Posts column allows you to see the next bit of info right when it's first share.  Take all three together and you get the full picture.

So open Scoopler, search for your flavor of the moment and tune in with high-fidelity to the real-time web.

-- Ben

P.S. We'd like to tune into you. Share your thoughts to feedback[at]scoopler[dot]com or send them direct to me ben[at]scoopler[dot]com.  Alternatively, leave us your comments below!

We have some awesome news here at Scoopler HQ:

We have just hired Ben Tauber to join our founding team as Chief Operations Officer.  Ben has been a close friend and advisor to Scoopler since we first interviewed with YC in April 2008.  Ben was previously Product Manager, Platforms, Operations and Saas at Adobe and we're excited to be leveraging his skills and experience here at Scoopler.  He will be working with on product management, hiring, operations and overall strategy as well as adding to our Engineering efforts.  

Here's Ben getting his hands on some Python:

You can find out more about Ben on his LinkedIn profile: 

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/benjamin-tauber/2/505/b00 

Follow him on twitter:

http//twitter.com/btaubster

Or email ben[at]scoopler[dot]com

Would you like to join Ben and become part of the Real-Time Revolution?  

We're looking for talented individuals to join our growing team and help us remain at the cutting edge of this exciting new field.  If you want to join our young and ambitious start-up, please check out our job postings here: http://scoopler.com/jobs.

What's New

1. RSS feeds for searches and categories
2. Peek is the now default for links, images and videos

Easy RSS feeds

Another handy way to keep up to date with the latest content you care about, Scoopler’s easy RSS feeds make, well, easy. Available for custom searches and categories, the feed will push what’s popular right to your reader.

The two-step how to:

1. Search for your or click a category
2. Click the RSS button and copy the URL into your favorite RSS reader

Customize the content type

Only want to see video, images or links in your RSS feed? Scoopler does that too. Choose the content type you want to view first in the popular column, then click the RSS button and you’re set.

Quick Peek

With Quick Peek you can rapidly view lots of content without browsing away from Scoopler. Click any link and a preview of the page loads directly in Scoopler while keeping your search results fresh in the background. Peek a link, check it out, then move on. This was already the default option for video and images, by popular demand it’s now default for links as well.

To view the link in a separate browser, click the new window button to the right of the link, though we think this is so handy you won’t need to.

* Why does peek sometimes send me directly to the page? Because some providers, such as hulu.com, force their content to only load in a separate page as is their prerogative.

Enjoy!