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Twitter's New Search Might Just Change Everything By judithgermain and sandwalker

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May 18, 2009

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Big changes are in the works for Twitter and their realtime search features, says new Twitter VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, changes that may spell the end of the status quo both for the microblogging platform in particular and the entire concept of organic searching in general.

Jayaram, who previously worked on Google's search quality team, spoke two weeks ago at a TIEcon 2009 preview conference about the changes Twitter is planning to implement to their search features, providing attendees with a compelling look at how the microblogging platform may rise up to challenge even Google in terms of indexing Web 2.0 content.

Comments (7)

Sydney43,

May 19, 2009

This new plan of Twitter could change search in many ways. Of course, the average person looking for information is still going to want more than a 140 character mini-reply. But still, the enormous popularity of Twitter is certainly going to be astounding. I've been resisting Twitter but this is all the more reason to learn how to use it - NOW!

Callie O,

May 20, 2009

Its not just the 140 character tweet that is returned in the search. The links tweeted allow a real time 'human search engine'.

Hence the importance of using a link shortener wisely.

Adamsherk,

May 20, 2009

Well said. The tools and platforms never stop changing, but the 80/20 rule of junk vs. useful content remains constant

Rita012,

May 21, 2009

I agree with Sydney. People want more than 140 characters. The only way I see a Twitter search as being helpful, is if you are looking for like-minded people. I don't think the actual content will be that useful.

But then again, you can already find like-minded people using Twollo.

Frank Larrabeee,

May 22, 2009

Looks like time to work on short useful tweets to build a "reputation".

Dunc Mac,

May 27, 2009

Some of the changes planned by Twitter look useful like indexing content in the tweets, it may pay to use a link shortener like a.gd as this allows you to edit link URLs with words.

Sandwalker,

Jun 07, 2009

Twitter is still new for many. I can't believe their going to change it again. I imagine google will asimilate any changes to it just like the Borg. Go twitter!