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Library Of Congress Struggling To Make A Searchable Twitter Archive
The Library of Congress is still working on plans to create a searchable archive of nearly every public tweet ever sent, but the challenges...
How To Search All Your Tweets Via Twitter
It’s been one of the biggest problems Twitter has had for years, that it’s difficult to find your own tweets on the Twitter. The new...
Take Twitter Campaigns To The Next Level With SEO Data
You drive amazing amounts of traffic to your sites, grow conversions and engage with thousands of users over social media. Want to take your...
Twitter Makes Search Results More Visual With Top Photos, Videos & Instant Previews
Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new “Top Photos” section above matching tweets. “Top...
SMX Social Media Features Del Harvey, The “Matt Cutts” Of Twitter
Our SMX Social Media Marketing show is coming to Las Vegas this Dec. 5 & 6, and as part of our great agenda is a keynote talk by Del Harvey,...
Twitter’s New SEO Play: A Profile Directory Of All User Accounts
Twitter has quietly launched a user profile directory that it hopes will bring it more search engine traffic. It’s Twitter’s second...
Twitter Opens Up To More Crawling, But Do Search Engines Want Its Search Results In Theirs?
Twitter recently updated its robots.txt file and, though the change opens up millions of pages to being crawled, there’s no guarantee that...
NBC Olympics Executive’s Email Wasn’t “Widely Available” In Google
The interwebs are all a flutter over how a critic of NBC’s Olympic coverage had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting the email...
Twitter Inching Closer To Giving You All Your Tweets, But Search Has A Long Way To Go
Twitter is working on a project that will give users access to an archive of all of their own tweets. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told the New York...
Politwoops: A Search Engine For Deleted Tweets From Policitians
At the beginning of the year I wrote about PolitickerUSA, a free tool that allows users to quickly and easily read tweets from members of...
Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete & New Filters
Twitter’s search tool has just undergone a slight makeover with a number of new features that should help get users to the information...
The Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour
Nearly 20 percent of the top search queries on Twitter at any given moment won’t be a popular search query just one hour later....
Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker To Twitter
Gabriel Stricker is still listed on Google as Director of Communications, Search. However he’s now VP of Communications for Twitter. He...
How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search
The good folks over at Stone Temple Consulting released an in-depth interview with Bing’s Principal Group Program Manager for Bing Social...
Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin...
A Proposal For Social Network Détente
For the past two weeks, I feel like I’ve been witnessing some type of Cuban Missile Crisis going on between Google, Twitter and Facebook....
“Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
I’ve written that Google has plenty of public data to allow parts its new Search Plus Your World feature to be inclusive of rival social...
How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets
Many U.S. Senators and Representatives are tweeting opinions, updates, images, documents, etc. these days, and Twitter can be a very useful, if...
Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information
The internet and search engines in particular are the top sources for information about local businesses, according to a new survey from the Pew...
Live Blogging the Twitter Event: Easier Discovery, Enhanced Profiles, More Direct Challenge To Facebook
I’m at the new Twitter HQ (not for six months) in San Francisco with the tech press corps awaiting a Twitter press conference that I will...