Twitter Finally Integrates Its Real-Time Search Engine
Twitter just announced that it is slowly releasing a new interface to a subset of its users that will put Twitter Search and Trends right on users' profiles. Until now, Twitter's real-time search function, which was acquired from Summize last year, lived on a separate subdomain and was not fully integrated into Twitter. Clearly, Twitter has realized that real-time search is one of its core features if it wants to monetize its service successfully.
The only search function that was available from the profile pages until now was Twitter's people search. For users who already have access to the new interface, a search box will appear at the top of the page, as well as a link to Twitter's trends page.
According to Biz Stone, the integrated search will become available to all users in the near future, after "a bunch of us have kicked the tires a bit."
Until now, a lot of users were probably not even aware of the fact that Twitter had a search engine, and Biz Stone explicitly mentions that private accounts will not be indexed by Twitter's search engine. According to Stone, over 90% of all Twitter users make their updates public.
Twitter's real-time search is probably one of Twitter's most valuable features, as it allows you to keep track of an event as it unfolds in real-time. Here at RWW, we use it daily - either through Tweetdeck's or Twhirl's built-in search, or directly on the web.
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With these features additions allowing slowly some analytics by Twitter I"m now curious about when some API Twitter content doors will require $$$. Or maybe they have something else in mind?
Twitter search is one of the most useful parts of the site, good to see integration finally, and hope it is available to everyone soon.
This is encouraging news. I haven't been long on twitter but it will help twitter user who is one of 40,000 followers of a user. The follower will be lost in the crowd and get unnoticed.
Thats nice of Twitter. Hope I could use it to my profit. Twitter is coming with new features.
Twitter's real-time search is indeed very useful and this been integrated into twitter is a gr8 news. Looking forward to it.
If you use Firefox, Power Twitter already provides integrated search - and other improvements ;)
See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591
Twitter search is indeed a powerful tool. I use it all the time to see coming trends and research topics.
Great news the additional features.
@Calli
thanks Pierre - got to try that
Posted by: Frederic
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February 19, 2009 11:56 AM
Twitter is greta. I love it
But when?
Twitscoop is the tool of the (near) future. Find out what's buzzing and capitalize on it (somehow) to your advantage. Someone with the knowledge is going to hit it big with this.
Thats nice of Twitter. Hope I could use it to my profit.
The Twitter people search and search engine have gotten better but the site's uptime hasn't been very reliable.
Twitter has taken over the social web networking world by storm, so it doesn't come to surprise me that they would want to add their own search engine. It will actually become very convenient to many users.
Twitter is gret micro bloggin platform. I like it.
The new search tools will make it easier for to check up on my friends, and my favorite celebrities.