Comments on: Real Time Search Soon At Twitter

By: Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile » VentureBeat

Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile » VentureBeat — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:19:28 +0000

[...] within Twitter has been, quite frankly, ridiculous. The company itself said it would be coming shortly last fall, and yet it never came. Meanwhile others, including FriendFeed added the ability to search tweets [...]

By: FriendFeed gains search. Hey Twitter, where’s your search? » VentureBeat

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:05:24 +0000

[...] to Twitter has been talked about before. Back in September of last year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told TechCrunch that real time search would be added to Twitter “very soon”, and went on to suggest [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:40:32 +0000

There seems to be a slight disagreement between the URL and the title of this post. I’m sure Twitter search is going to be of special interest to trend watchers and marketeers (and egosurfers), but from the sound of things this could probably be used to provide functionality akin to channels.

By: phenom

phenom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:04:13 +0000

that’s a shitty phone…check out project kannel on freashmeat.net
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:04:20 +0000

CitizenT: The poster probably meant a phone from the 21st Century, as in after 2000. That phone looks like it’s from the late 1990s.

By: CitizenT

CitizenT — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:40 +0000

“…phone from this century…”

What?? A simple device with just calls and sms is not from this century??? (psss: people call these things “normal” phones, not i/smart/e/-phones and they are known to be useful).

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Twitter观察10：twitter alert! | Liumiao.com商业评论 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:13:34 +0000

[...] 据TechCrunch报道，twitter即将加入”实时搜索”功能，即，你可以通过twitter追踪任何关键字，譬如从事石油行业的可以以”国际油价”为关键词进行跟踪，每当twitter上有关于”国际油价”的消息时，用户就能及时通过IM或是短信得到通知，在将来，更可以通过Email或是RSS订阅的方式获取。 [...]

By: Marjolein Hoekstra

Marjolein Hoekstra — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:07:48 +0000

I’d be quite happy if the Twitter guys would leave search up to the people from Terraminds. Their support is excellent and I know they’ve got some very cool stuff up their sleeves. I’m told the Twitter API has limitations which cause these engines to lose a tweet here and there. If Twitter would resolve these issues, for example by providing direct access to their indexes, then it could truly become a very useful resource for hot-of-the-press opinions, impressions, pointers and headlines. I’m already integrating Twitter search results in most of my news radars.

Instead, Twitter could implement functions like this:
- who’s following me that I’m not following?

- create a unique URL for the Replies tab RSS feed so that I can track it where I want

- facilitate browsing the tweet history log of the last 24 hours, preferably with at least 50 messages on one screen, and in regular chronological order

- easier navigation of people’s lists of friends. Index the pages and let me jump straight to the page that start with the letter S, for example. Make these lists searchable, so that I can more easily answer the question if person X is following person Y.

By: EJ Fox

EJ Fox — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:37:49 +0000

Interesting enough after looking over the ‘how to make twitter useful’ paper from TechDirt. Obviously this will allow companies to track mentions of their product name. The next part might sound odd but bear with me; this is the kind of thing twitter should charge from on a corporate basis. Allow companies to take up a contract and follow their ‘campaigns’ in real time from twitterers. It would also increase traffic to twitter- those companies want their consumers to go on twitter so that they can have more accurate results. It’s win-win isn’t it?

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:09:12 +0000

sesh they also need to get a camera with auto focus too!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:40:10 +0000

sesh - funny…about the phone comment. I think I have one of those in a drawer somewhere.

By: Chris Laux

Chris Laux — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:27:40 +0000

In the meantime you can do historical searches covering the last month of twitters here: http://terraminds.com/twitter/ This is a third party tool that utilises the Twitter API.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:30:51 +0000

Woohooo! Exciting news!

By: sesh

sesh — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:28:14 +0000

Heh, I wonder when Fake Steve Ballmer and other are going to stop pointlessly spamming this blog.

I thought that Twitter had received enough funding to pay for a phone from this century….

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:04:53 +0000

Heh, I wonder what PubSub people are thinking now…. What Twitter calls “real time search” PubSub called “prospective search”.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:34:01 +0000

Nice, BUT, you can already do this using MSN search just type: /forward/SMS/ole223/p+n.
If it doesn’t work the first time just keep changing up some of the chatacters until it does!
Simple.
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Dan Birdwhistell

Dan Birdwhistell — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:30:27 +0000

They sent you a mobile phone? They didn’t send me one. Maybe they got my address wrong…

By: DocuSign Raises $12.4 Million »TechAddress

DocuSign Raises $12.4 Million »TechAddress — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:30:12 +0000

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By: Sam Daoud

Sam Daoud — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:29:08 +0000

Nice! This could make Twitter my new Breaking News site.