Twitter Begins Rolling Out Search and Trends
Twitter appears to be in the process of rolling out its integrated search feature, with a search box and a trends button appearing on some user profiles today. While the feature is not yet available to all users, our guess is that it's very much on the way - and soon.
The trends tab offers a drop down list of top ten trending topics (Chris Brown being the current most discussed topic), and the search box allows you to search in real time on any topic. Refresh your screen to see if you have the option yet, or take a look at our screen shots below.
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The new search feature is something we've all been eagerly awaiting, especially since Twitter's announcement last month; clearly they've now "kicked the tires" enough and it's ready for the world.
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I can't believe it has taken them so long to finally add search. I would think they could have added a search box quickly and easily months - or even longer - ago. I can't think of any reason they needed to wait on that to implement whatever they finally roll out.
I like that they added the search box. Not clear why the search results don;t have an expand for the tinyurls. The expand for tinyurls is already there on search.twitter.com but is absent http://twitter.com/search. Hope they add it soon.
woahh... that is sweet!
I think i want to be the "twitter seo master" what do you say? lol
Hmm, now what will Google do? or Microsoft? Msft have been quiet lately so never one to underestimate.
It's a nice response to Facebook's recent facelift.
How does Twitter decide the "featured users" as seen in top right hand side of results page?? http://is.gd/m14E
The new features work great. This will be a considerable assistance for new users. As they will now be able to easily follow trending topics accelerating the learning curve and exposing them to active users to connect with. More of my friends are trying Twitter every day. These feature should help.
Just a little more thought could have been put into this. How about placing the search box below the Following | Followers | Updates and above Home? IN the side bar that is already there? Plenty of room for it, instead of grabbing more screen real estate. With nothing but a huge empty space below the RSS feed link, there's no reason to step on more of a user's background image. Push the Home tab down just a little bit.
That looks awesome. Good stuff :)
Way to go Twitter.
Fairly lame release if you ask me. Weaker than Summize was 18 months ago.
How hard is it to add "limit to my followers", "limit to userxyzs followers", or "rank by authority", like the search engine Dare Obasanjo produced in a weekend.
It's certainly a clever move to add popular searches, since these will have been cached to hell, so most of the processing naughtiness will have been committed to memory...
TweetFeed.com does this already :) check it out
I dont see it yet
Trending topics can already be seen at http://search.twitter.com/search
Still not available for me, anyone else from the UK seeing the new homepage yet?
Finally! No more switching back and forth between search.twitter.com and other 3rd party sites for trending. Hooray!
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What if I STILL don't have the search bar appearing, and even when I signed up for a new account it uses the old interface?! Is my computer just stupid? :-)
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hOW DO I GET RID OF THIS TRENDING BAR IF I DONT WANT IT
This will be a considerable assistance for new users. As they will now be able to easily follow trending topics accelerating the learning curve and exposing them to active users to connect with. More of my friends are trying Twitter every day. These feature should help.
I know alot of people use twitter to bring traffic to their website. Tried but it does not seem to be working for me! Has it something to do with number of followers that you have?
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How about placing the search box below the Following | Followers | Updates and above Home?
With nothing but a huge empty space below the RSS feed link, there's no reason to step on more of a user's background image. Push the Home tab down just a little bit.
Can someone explain me what is all the buzz about Twitter?
I'm not surprised something as trendy as Twitter would provide their users with a trend tool. Twitter is all about current and on top.
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It makes life easier and Thanks for the trend news..
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I dont really like twitter. Too much spam.
It makes life easier.
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Hmm, now what will Google do? or Microsoft? Msft have been quiet lately so never one to underestimate.
It's a nice response to Facebook's recent facelift.
've been working with these frameworks for the past 4 months and there is simply no comparison. QuickConnect is everything PhoneGap should be and more.The author also responds to questions pretty quickly.
Although this world of web-connected things has been much discussed for years, we've seen little movement pushing the concept forward, Tweeter is great
Why not place the links inside the video player itself. This will expose the links to all of the off site embeded views, what does Google actually want to do? so many new things all of the sudden?
I believe 2008 is lucky for them ..
I love twitter , and hopefully they will continue to develop new features.
It's likely that nobody will be able to, since it's a very strange overflow that only allows registers to be overwritten with information from a pre-defined table.