The fine folks at Twitter have been talking about a search feature for quite some time now. They never actually pulled it off since they were busy focusing on stabilizing the platform and restoring functionality to the service. Off in the distance, a website called Summize rose up and filled that void. The nice thing about Summize is that it was able to provide a realtime query into what’s going on in Twitter without having to visit the actual Twitter website. It also proved to be a solid failover for developers for when Twitter had gone down or was busy firing off whales like a mad man. Aside from that, there was no real cap on the number of API requests one could make in a given time frame. It just worked. Period.