TimmyHHow Twitter Could Bring Search Up to Speed
March 11th 2009 19:56
Some say that Twitter may be as important to real-time search as YouTube is to video.
When Twitter was introduced in late 2006, asking users to post a 140-word answer to the question "What are you doing?," many criticized the results as nothing more than a collection of trivial thoughts and inane ramblings. Fast-forward three years, and the number of Twitter users has grown to millions, while the content of the many posts--better known as "tweets"--has shifted from banal to informative.
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By Kate Greene
Twitter raises search profile
When Twitter was introduced in late 2006, asking users to post a 140-word answer to the question "What are you doing?," many criticized the results as nothing more than a collection of trivial thoughts and inane ramblings. Fast-forward three years, and the number of Twitter users has grown to millions, while the content of the many posts--better known as "tweets"--has shifted from banal to informative.
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By Kate Greene
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I mean, there's a rumour that Apple might make a netbook and everyone goes crazy about it (all day yesterday, everywhere!), but one of the search giants looks like losing their niche? Or rather, someone comes along with search and trend data of this importance?
Nobody's said much at all. Really weird. I wonder if Twitter are planning a big share deal or a buyout or something and are keeping a lid on the potential of this thing... intriguing.