Earlier this week, while searching on Twitter, I was presented with a revamped search interface, but only for a minute or two (luckily, it was long enough to get a couple screen grabs). Then it went away. Even while I…
Twitter Confirms It’s Messing With Its Search Experience
While covering Google’s closure of Google Moderator earlier, I searched Twitter on the desktop to see what people were saying about it (not much so far), and suddenly, just for a minute or two, Twitter was serving me a completely…
Apple Acquires Topsy, Which Recently Launched A Twitter Search Engine
Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy Labs for over $200 million, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter”. Topsy made headlines a few months ago when it launched a new…
Topsy Indexes Every Public Tweet, Makes Them All Searchable
Why are other companies always making Twitter features better than Twitter does? This is especially true for search. I don’t know if you recall Twitter Search from a few years ago, but it was pretty bad. The company knew this,…
Twitter Announces Update To Search On Desktop
Twitter announced via a brief tweet this afternoon that it has launched an update to Twitter search. The update involves photos and accounts in search results and added context (including recent searches) as you type. This is pretty much all…
Twitter Shares Some Search Ranking Details
As previously reported, Twitter has launched some new search-related changes for its iOS and Android apps. Here’s what Twitter said about search in the announcement: “Search results now surface the most relevant mix of Tweets, photos, and accounts, all in…
Twitter Focuses On Search As Google Struggles With Its Mission
Should Google worry about losing a portion of its search market share to Twitter? Most people probably don’t think about Twitter so much as a search engine, yet it’s the go-to place for up-to-the-second updates on any event in the…