Twitter Redesigns Search Feature
February 22, 2013
Twitter’s blog post, “Search and Discover Improvements: Get More Great Content Faster,” describes updates to the service’s Android and iOS apps and to its mobile-tailored Web address . The primary change, as revealed by product management director Esteban Kozak, is the implementation of separate tabs with their own content streams.
There four of these distinct streams— Discover, Search, Connect, and Links. It is the first two that we find most interesting. The write-up specifies:
“Discover: Now all the content in Discover — Tweets, Activity, Trends and suggestions of accounts to follow — appears in a single stream, on both iPhone and Android. You can also dive into Activity and Trends from new previews at the top of the Discover tab.
“Search: Search results now surface the most relevant mix of Tweets, photos, and accounts, all in one stream (similar to the stream in Discover). We’ve also added a new search button to Twitter for iPhone, letting you search from anywhere within the app. (This button was already available in the Android and iPad apps.) Look for the magnifying glass icon next to the button you use to compose a Tweet.”
Making search and discovery easier to find and use is a worthy goal, and usually fairly straightforward to implement. The quality of search results, it should be remembered, is another matter entirely. The post mentions that information on new developments can always be found within Twitter’s entries at the App Store and Google Play.
Cynthia Murrell, February 22, 2013
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