Mar 6, 2013 at 3:44pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Twitter announced search upgrades to the Twitter mobile app. The upgrades includes an improved relevancy engine for top tweets, improved auto-completion for search and an easier web browser for results. Top Tweets In Search Results Some searches within the mobile Twitter interface may separate out top Tweets from the rest of the results. To see additional Tweets from this time period, tap on “View more from this time.” Here is an example of how this looks: Search Auto-Complete Update Now the autocomplete feature for searching or even tweeting is improved. You will now se [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Top News | Twitter: Search

Microsoft’s ViralSearch: Search Engine For Measuring Tweets & Viral Content

Mar 6, 2013 at 2:45pm ET by Barry Schwartz

VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate cascades of people passing content on social media and distinguish between things that are not just popular but also became viral in a sense that they are being passed from one person to the next over many generations. ViralSearch does this by analyzing news, videos, and photos shared within Twitter. It looks to see how many shares there were throughout the user base, over time and over generations of users. For example, in this screen shot, it shows a story Tim O [...]

Twitter Search Lets You Once Again Find Old Tweets

Feb 7, 2013 at 7:16pm ET by Danny Sullivan

For ages now, Twitter has only allowed you to search for tweets back for about a week. Looking for a tweet older than that? You were out of luck, at least using Twitter itself. But now, that's changing. In a post today, Twitter says that some older tweets are now going to be available. How far back? That's not said; but, it seems like tweets that are particularly popular or notable will be available. From Twitter's post: As we roll this out over the coming days, the Tweets that you’ll see in search results represent a fairly small percentage of total Tweets ever sent. We look at a variety [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Social | Top News | Twitter | Twitter: Search

Find Content Quicker On The Go With Twitter’s New Mobile Search & Discover Upgrades

Feb 6, 2013 at 3:10pm ET by Greg Finn

Users will now be able to find more on the go as a new round of mobile updates have been launched for Twitter. The updates rolled out center on content discovery as the Search, Discover and Connect tabs have all been updated. The new changes make it easier for users to view more information at anytime, from any tab. The specific upgrades rolled out include: Search - The new search screen gives users a more visual look with images and media tied into one stream. Users will still be able to sort by Tweets or people and the search icon will now be featured on every page of iOS (something [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Social | Twitter | Twitter: Search

Library Of Congress Struggling To Make A Searchable Twitter Archive

Jan 7, 2013 at 8:02am ET by Matt McGee

The Library of Congress is still working on plans to create a searchable archive of nearly every public tweet ever sent, but the challenges inherent in that task are making it a slow process. Understandably so, considering the substantial growth in tweets in recent years; the LoC is essentially trying to tame a very rapidly moving dataset. If it ever happens, a searchable archive of tweets could prove valuable to researchers, analysts, marketers and others. You can imagine brands wanting to search for Twitter trends surrounding major product/service announcements, or researchers looking [...]

Finally, You Can Search All Your Tweets Via Twitter

Dec 19, 2012 at 2:47pm ET by Danny Sullivan

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 Twitter Archive service that Twitter launched today goes a long way in solving this issue. Step-By-Step: How To Download All Your Tweets With The New Twitter Archive Service is our story on our Marketing Land sister-site that covers how the new service works. Here on Search Engine Land, we'll focus on the search aspect. After you've downloaded your tweets, you can hunt through them in one of two ways: browsing by month or by keyword search: Browsing [...]

Twitter Makes Search Results More Visual With Top Photos, Videos & Instant Previews

Nov 15, 2012 at 5:40pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new "Top Photos" section above matching tweets. "Top Videos" may also appear. Twitter will also begin automatically showing tweeted pictures for those searching on the iPhone or with Android devices. Top Photos & Videos Twitter already shows top photos and images for a search, but these have been placed off to the side of the main search results, like this: With the change, top pictures and videos will come above the matching tweets: The change above will happen for both desktop and mobile searchers, Twitter [...]

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Twitter’s New SEO Play: A Profile Directory Of All User Accounts

Oct 8, 2012 at 8:45am ET by Matt McGee

Twitter has quietly launched a user profile directory that it hopes will bring it more search engine traffic. It's Twitter's second SEO play in recent weeks, coming on the heels of a change in its robots.txt file. With that change, Twitter made its content-based search results -- i.e., search results for tweets and hashtags, but not search results for users -- crawlable. With the new directory, Twitter is finishing that process by making its user profiles more discoverable by Google, Bing and other search engines. When asked why Twitter launched the user directory, a company spokesperson [...]

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Twitter Opens Up To More Crawling, But Do Search Engines Want Its Search Results In Theirs?

Sep 27, 2012 at 10:05am ET by Matt McGee

Twitter recently updated its robots.txt file and, though the change opens up millions of pages to being crawled, there's no guarantee that the main search engines want what Twitter is offering. The Sociable seems to have been the first to notice Twitter's robots.txt changes, which now specifically allow Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and other bots to crawl through some of Twitter's search results pages. Twitter: Change Made To Help With Discovery Twitter confirmed the change to us, saying: This change will help people find popular and helpful Twitter pages, such as the #olympics hashtag pa [...]

Twitter Inching Closer To Giving You All Your Tweets, But Search Has A Long Way To Go

Jul 25, 2012 at 9:05am ET by Matt McGee

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 Times this week that the company is building a tool that would let Twitter users download their own tweets. He didn't provide a timeframe for such a tool to be ready. Twitter search is notoriously shallow. Although the company has recently upgraded its search capabilities, the site's search box only shows results from the past seven days. With users tweeting more than 400 million times per day, a full-history, all-Twitter search/download to [...]

Politwoops: A Search Engine For Deleted Tweets From Policitians

Jul 21, 2012 at 1:08pm ET by Gary Price

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 congress and other political leaders. Today, I want to point out another free service named Politwoops that launched at the end of May. Here, users can access and read tweets that have been deleted by members of congress. In their words: Politwoops, the only comprehensive collection of deleted tweets by U.S. politicians. From minor typos to major gaffes, Politwoops is now there to offer a searchable window into what they hoped you didn't see. The P [...]

Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete & New Filters

Jul 6, 2012 at 3:32pm ET by Matt McGee

Twitter's search tool has just undergone a slight makeover with a number of new features that should help get users to the information they're looking for quicker than before. The most noticeable upgrade is the addition of autocompleted search suggestions that appear below the search box as you type. The dropdown will show terms that you might be searching for, as well as Twitter accounts -- whether you follow them or not -- that may match what's being typed in the search box. After completing the search, Twitter has added a new filter to the tweet results. In addition to being able [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Top News | Twitter: Search

The Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour

Jun 4, 2012 at 2:21pm ET by Matt McGee

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. That's according to a new research paper that Twitter will present this week at a social media conference. Twitter researchers Jimmy Lin and Gilad Mishne analyzed all search queries on the site during October 2011 and discovered that 17 percent of the top 1,000 search queries from one hour aren't in the top 1,000 queries the next hour. The churn of Twitter search activity is nearly the same when measured at a daily level, rather than hourly. Lin and Mishne say [...]

Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”

Feb 21, 2012 at 12:47am ET by Greg Sterling

Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter "firehose." The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will have access to the full Twitter feed but has discretion over what it uses and how that content is ranked and displayed. According to a statement issued by Yandex: New tweets will now become available in Yandex's Blog Search results in a matter of moments. In addition to Yandex’s Blog Se [...]

How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets

Jan 19, 2012 at 1:38pm ET by Gary Price

Many U.S. Senators and Representatives are tweeting opinions, updates, images, documents, etc. these days, and Twitter can be a very useful, if not an essential tool, to learn about what’s going on directly from each member, especially regarding controversial legislation such as SOPA. An easy to use but powerful web tool (it's also free) named PolitickerUSA can save you a lot of time and effort informing you as to what members of congress are tweeting about right now. In one location you can quickly access the non-stop real-time stream of tweets from Senators, Reps, President Obama, go [...]

Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box

Nov 8, 2011 at 7:22pm ET by Matt McGee

Twitter and Mozilla have struck a deal that makes Twitter search one of the default search options in the new Firefox 8 web browser. It's included in the Windows, Mac and Linux versions, which can be downloaded now. As Mozilla's blog post explains, the Twitter search option can be used to search Twitter usernames, hashtags and topics (without hashtags). It's available in four languages: English, Portuguese, Slovenian and Japaneses. Mozilla says more languages will be enabled in future releases. Twitter search was previously available as a separate add-on for the Firefox search bar. T [...]

Twitter Renews Deal With Bing; Google Deal Remains MIA

Sep 6, 2011 at 7:43pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Twitter and Bing announced that they have extended their deal that allows Bing to tap into Twitter's information in a cutesy exchange on Twitter itself. As for Google, which Twitter's been on the outs with since July, Twitter says there's no similar happy news to report. Dear Twitter, I Love You! Kisses, Bing Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner compiled the exchange using the awesome Storify service, as you'll find here: It's perhaps the first press release via Twitter conversation that I know of. Details? You Don't Need No Stinkin' Details! But how about details? How long is the de [...]

Here’s What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful

Aug 23, 2011 at 9:31am ET by Matt McGee

I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They'll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who've scattered our photo uploads across TwitPic, yFrog, Mobypicture and other photo services. But I'm also hoping that the product Twitter launched yesterday is a shell of what it'll be six months from now, or a year from now. Because there's so much more that Twitter can and should do with these User Galleries. Here's a look at one Twitter user (me) would like to see: 1. Stop archiving images that I retweet via the "old sty [...]

Twitter Search Gets “New Twitter” Look & Feel

Jul 25, 2011 at 5:43pm ET by Danny Sullivan

For ages, Twitter has operated a standalone Twitter Search site in addition to allowing people to search from within Twitter.com itself. Today, that standalone site has gained a new location and been upgraded to match the Twitter.com search experience. Previously, Twitter Search was located at http://search.twitter.com. Now, that address leads to http://twitter.com/search, as tweeted by Twitter earlier today. What's different beyond the URL? The interface. See More With Right Panel Support Searching at Twitter.com makes it easy to perform a search and then pop-open a right panel to view m [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Top News | Twitter: Search

Google Realtime Search & The Aftermath Of The Google-Twitter Split

Jul 7, 2011 at 3:45pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Last Friday, Twitter quietly shutdown its "firehose" of tweet data that was being piped to Google. Like a gas station no longer getting deliveries, Google in turn effectively had to hang a "Closed" sign on its Google Realtime Search service. What happened, and what's next for those who depended on Google to get some of their Twitter gas? Some thoughts and advice, below. Topsy Provides Twitter Archive Search First, there's a great alternative to Google Realtime Search: Topsy. Indeed, the company has just put out a blog post reminding the world that it's the only Twitter archive search ser [...]

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