Twitter Expands Search Reservoir
February 25, 2013
Twitter, now with more tweets! I suppose that’s a real plus for some. ComputerWorld announces, “Twitter Search to Show Tweets More Than a Week Old.” Writer Jeremy Kirk explains:
“Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content.
“Over the next few days, searches will return ‘a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent’ but that will increase over time, wrote Paul Burstein, an engineer who works on Twitter’s search infrastructure, on a company blog.
“‘We look at a variety of types of engagement, like favorites, retweets and clicks, to determine which tweets to show,’ Burstein wrote. ‘We’ll be steadily increasing this percentage over time, and ultimately, aim to surface the best content for your query.'”
I suppose a wider search results field is better, whatever the platform. The expansion was announced alongside Twitter‘s updates to its search function in its iOS and Android mobile apps. These apps now return tweets, photos, and people in a single results stream rather than separate tabs. One other change saves users a step by letting them go directly to a linked Web site without opening the corresponding tweet. Ah, the relentless march of progress—now saving us a few seconds at a time.
Cynthia Murrell, February 25, 2013
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