Interesting - Absolutley. Useful? Not so sure. Although if you're job is social media you might want to keep this up as a dashboard. I guess you could make it useful by letting me enter a big list of search terms, then display the matching tweets in the same format... companies might use that.
pspeter - thanks for the feedback - what would you think about having a space for tweets on the far left hand side of the screen as opposed to in the box? That way you would click on any box and the tweets would appear on the left?
I think that would be good as long as it was very clear in the UI that that was the expect behavior. Is there a way to get top tweets from a twitter search?