Twitter Adds Search
Posted by Nick O'Neill on April 9th, 2008 1:24 AMTonight Twitter added search as a feature to their site. This means that instantly users can begin searching through locations and usernames. I did a search for Washington, D.C. and received the screenshot that’s displayed below. This is a big blow to the increasingly popular Twitter Local website. Now you can simply search through locations and find an accurate listing of all people. The one benefit of still using Twitter Local is that you can sort by distance.
Many have said that Twitter has been slow to roll out new features. It looks like they are finally starting to step things up now that they have a solid hosting provider. While I’m not yet able to search through all of my tweets, I would imagine that the full search functionality will be added to Twitter in the near future given the current speed of their search results.
This sheer ability to search through million upon millions of messages would be substantial. Imagine being able to go back and search through all of the instant messages you ever sent. While Google has since added that feature to their talk, I have a feeling that our volume of tweets are frequently more substantial.
Do you see much value in searching through your tweets? How about for users?
Update
Wayne Sutton says in the comments that the search has always been around but just in another place. Did I miss something?
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To answer your questions:
Do you see much value in searching through your tweets?
How about for users?:
Yes, using the twitter search is one of the first ways I search for local twitter users. So the value was there to find local twitters to organize a tweetup and that's what I did. We had over a 30 plus local twitter users at at meetup. See http://triangletweetup.pbwiki.com/
Still it's good to see twitter making changes, I think a twitter is about to start making some money soon with ads on the side bar.
I'm @waynesutton on twitter and I use twitter search
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