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TwittStorm is a web app that monitors tweets in real-time.

Type in your favourite keyword to see just how much of a Twittstorm it's creating right now. Sit back and watch the tweets fly in! That's right - every single Tweet in the whole wide world that contains your chosen keyword, popping up on your screen in real-time.

You might get a breeze, or a gale, or a storm. But a true Twittstorm is anything over 120 tweets per minute, and at two tweets a second, unless you're some kind of super-sonic speed-reader, you'll probably want to throttle the speed back a little to keep up. Twittstorm provides the tools for the job. You can limit the flow of tweets to a rate that's good for you, and you can filter your keyword in any way you like (to look only at links, hashtags or retweets for example). You can use keywords in any language and you can filter the results by language too.

Twitter is one of the fastest moving social platforms, and it's great fun to watch the world spread the word about the hottest trends and topics as it happens. You can keep an eye on the movers and shakers* in the Twitter world, you can trace particularly heavily tweeted links back to the source, you can see the big picture. You need never miss out on anything ever again!

The stormiest Twittstorms can be found on the home page and you can bookmark your own favourite Twittstorms and share them with others. If you happen to be a Chrome or Safari user who's into whale-song or very abstract jazz, we think you'll rather enjoy the audio interpretation of Twittstorm too.

There's no need to login, no need to register and it's totally free. So what are you waiting for? Why not push the boat out and set sail into the Twittstorm?

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It overcomes the power supply issue in an ingenious way: the battery life is profoundly extended because Sleeping Beauty only consumes power when the object is moved. When Sleeping Beauty is standing still, it remains in sleep mode and doesn't consume any power at all.

We don't sell Sleeping Beauty you can "Pre-Order" and take the survey to get a 20% Voucher as soon as Sleeping Beauty is purchasable. We know how hard it is to build a hardware startup and we don't want to disappoint potential customers with Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaigns without delivering the product.

Thank you for your Feedback!

We already have a working Sleeping Beauty hardware prototype and iPhone app. The size will be like a hockey puck. Sleeping Beauty uses a low self-discharge nickel–metal hydride battery(LSD NiMH). After 2 Years in sleep mode there is still 75% energy left.

For your watch I would recommend a NFC solution which is much smaller but you could protect the whole cabinet with Sleeping Beauty. I also just got the feedback to use it for a firearm locker - so there are many use cases.

Just to be clear: tracking your dog with Sleeping Beauty will discharge the battery within a short period, just like any other device. But Sleeping Beauty will protect the Porsche convertable in your barn for two years instead of two months.