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Twitter Search to Become Real Search
mashable.com - 5/7/2009
Twitter Search to Become Real Search
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The fact that Twitter’s search is now often faster and more relevant than any other search engine out there is not a secret anymore. It is, however, a very limited search engine: it merely indexes a bunch of tweets. In its current state, it’s great for tracking conversations, but it ...
Twitter Search for Everyone!
blog.twitter.com - 4/30/2009
Twitter Search for Everyone!
— blog.twitter.com — Every public update sent to Twitter from anywhere in the world 24/7 can be instantly indexed and... made discoverable via our newly launched real-time search. What was that loud noise outside your apartment? Did you just feel an earthquake? What do ... (more) Twitter Search for Everyone!

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Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For @Replies, Changes Them Again
techcrunch.com - 5/13/2009
Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For @Replies, Changes Them Again
— techcrunch.com — Twitter is officially getting dumbed down. For the second time in less than two months, Twitter has... changed its @reply system, this time by removing an option that has existed for many months in an effort to appease confused newcomers. The basic ... (more) Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For ...

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techcrunch.com - 5/5/2009
Twitter Mania: Google Got Shut Down. Apple Rumors Heat Up.
— techcrunch.com — Twitter! Whether you use it or not, or understand it or not, it’s the hottest thing in... Silicon Valley right now. It’s brought up in every conversation. And no wonder - the service has exploded to somewhere north of 25 million users and has been ... (more) Twitter Mania: Google Got Shut Down. Apple Rumors Heat Up.

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Blippitt:  Big Changes Coming for Twitter Search

SearchViews:  Social Media: SEO for Twitter Search Set to Boom with Upcoming Changes

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Big Changes Coming for Twitter Search
Blippitt — ... If you are an avid watcher of internet trends, this is big news. Santosh Jayaram, Twitter’s Vice President of Operations, says that Twitter search is preparing to begin crawling the actual links that you include in your tweets, according to Cnet. That’s a lot of data to crunch. This will make Twitter even more of a real-time search juggernaut than it already is. Jayaram has also hinted that Twitter Search may also be about to get its own reputation ranking system. Rank would likely be calculated based on ...

Social Media: SEO for Twitter Search Set to Boom with Upcoming Changes
SearchViews — ... Search is poised to make substantial changes to the way results are gathered and presented has caused a frenzy of preparative speculation in this company not seen since ...

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