During the past week, we launched UAETweets, a twitter lens on the UAE that provides a quick view of the UAE community pulse, and what’s on their minds at any given moment.

It started off with some tinkering and experimentation with twitter-based ideas such as extracting local UAE trends, searching in the tweets only by UAE users, figuring out the most popular links in the UAE, etc. And then we realized that we could package all of these features in a full-blown website, and it took us about 2 weeks to get it done.

You can read more about the website on StartupArabia coverage and in an interview on the National’s beepbeep blog.

We’re just getting started with UAETweets, we have tons of stuff in mind for it, but please do let us know if you have any feature request, feedback or something you don’t like and we’ll take all of that into consideration.