Search on Twitter has never been the most organized experience, and it’s unlikely it ever will be, but there are some new features coming to Twitter’s web client and apps that should be helpful. Autocomplete that suggests terms and Twitter accounts, for one, and spelling corrections. Searches on the web client can also sort your searches by people you know, in addition to Top and All. [Twitter] More »
Yesterday Twitter teased us about how its search and discovery were set to change forever – which we weren’t sure what they were talking about. Today, the answer has finally been revealed. According to a blog post on the official Twitter blog, they’ve made significant changes to the way Twitter.com works when it comes to search and discovery. The main improvement over the previous search is the introduction of search autocomplete. Instead of having to type complete words or sentences in the search field, the new autocomplete feature will help you with that once you enter the first few letters of your search term.
Other improvements include “people you follow” search results, related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results. I haven’t seen the new features yet on the Twitter.com website yet so I’m assuming it’s going to be a staged rollout as usual. For those of you who already have the new features, do let us know if they work well. Related search suggestions, search autocomplete and spelling corrections will also make their way to the Android and iOS Twitter app.
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Twitter had been hinting at a big search update today, and that’s just what it delivered. Instead of the (quite frankly clunky) search results page, a search box at top now provides autocompleting search results that split into keywords and people. The system is smart enough to check for spelling gaffes and related searches, and results can drill down just to followed users rather than the entire social network. Autocompleting has been a mainstay of the Android and iOS apps for some time, but we’re glad to hear that web users can now track down their favorite recently graduated teen pop stars faster than ever.
Twitter brings search autocomplete to the web, helps find Biebs tweets in record time originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It seems that the folks over at Twitter are prepping up something for its millions of active users. In a tweet today, engineering manager Pankaj Gupta, who currently leads the personalization and recommender systems group over at Twitter, hinted that the “search and discovery on Twitter is set to change forever after tomorrow.” We’re not really sure what he meant but it’s obvious that he was pointing to the search and discovery functionality of the popular microblogging platform.
Meanwhile, Business Insider previously said that Twitter could be pursuing the same direction that the popular aggregation app Flipboard is taking. “When Flipboard CEO Mike McCue resigned from Twitter’s board yesterday, it gave the rest of us a pretty clear idea about where Twitter wants to take its product. McCue stepped down because Flipboard and Twitter are becoming more alike – more competitive,” the publication said. In March this year, Twitter celebrated its 6th-year anniversary and the social networking/ microblogging giant revealed that it now has over 140 million active users, with over 340 million Tweets a day – more than 1 billion every 3 days.
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Do you really want all your Twitter followers to know that you’re currently at Dollar Rent-a-Car? I mean, if you do, that’s fine. But at the least, they probably don’t care and at the most they’re embarrassed for you. We’ve established that you shouldn’t arbitrarily push all your tweets to Facebook, and a similar maxim should apply to Twitter and your Foursquare Checkins. More »
If you’ve ever wondered where all the world’s tweets come from, wonder no more. This visualization, put together by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, shows the origins of the entire globe’s tweets. More »
Oh the wonders of technology. Deirdre Anglin lost her dog named Patch when the Jack Russell terrier accidentally boarded the 6:49 AM commuter train in Kilcock, over 20 miles west of Dublin on Tuesday this week. Fearful and obviously worried, she did the “the usual social network thing,” and posted pictures of Patch online via Facebook, asking her followers to help her spot the pet. Thankfully, the Irish Rail spotted the dog on Wednesday and sent out a “Lost dog!” tweet with a photo attachment of the terrier.
After nearly 500 tweets in half an hour, dog owner Deirdre Anglin eventually found the photo and immediately tweeted the state railway saying “That’s my dog!” Anglin was thankful that the Irish Rail posted Patch’s photo on Twitter. Barry Kenny, a spokesman of the Irish Rail describes Twitter as the “ideal platform for launching a nationwide appeal for the lost dog.” “It was good she showed up so quickly, because the staff in the office was getting quite attached to him,” Kenny said.
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BuzzFeed FWD dove deep into the undercurrent of change that’s going on at Twitter right now and saw a glimpse into its future: Facebook. Yes, what Twitter wants to be in the future is nothing like what it is right now and everything like what Zuck’s social network already is. More »
Twitter dispatched its first biannual Transparency Report — revealing government requests for user info and content holdback along with DMCA takedown notices — which spotlights the US as the most active by far. The company claimed it was aroused to action by Google, which has been doing it for the last two years and recently added copyright takedowns to its own reports. So far, Twitter says that while most nations requested user data 10 times or fewer, the US government made 679 such appeals, more than the entire rest of the world combined. It also showed how often it obeyed — 75 percent of the time in the US; much less elsewhere — and said that affected users are always notified unless the company is prohibited from doing so. As we also noted with Google’s reports, DMCA takedowns were by far the most numerous requests, with 3,378 total affecting 5,874 users, and 599 offending items actually pulled (38 percent). Those appeals aren’t broken down by company like Mountain View’s, but if you think that Usher photo mashup you’re using as an avatar might be a problem, check the source to see all the data.
Twitter Transparency Report shows DMCA and government actions: US is biggest busybody originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After a lovely hand-holding two years of partnership between the two, LinkedIn and Twitter will no longer be working with one-another. Twitter has cut off tweets on LinedIn this week and LinkedIn will no longer have the option to have Tweets shared directly through their site from a user’s control panel. This move is part of a set of actions pushed by Twitter to increase the strictness of their requirements for developers using their API to make their own custom apps.
Where before you’d have been able to sync LinkedIn and Twitter with the click of a button, you’ll now have to seek out 3rd party apps. In a blog post today, Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn head of content, wrote the following.
“If you had previously synced your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and selected the option to share Tweets on LinkedIn, those Tweets generated from Twitter will no longer appear on LinkedIn. There will be no other changes to your LinkedIn experience.” – Roslansky
Twitter will this year be increasing its enforcement of its so-called “Developer Rules of the Road” and will be doubling down on keeping their brand consistent across the web. Twitter product manager Michael Sippy added in a blog post about developer upgrades in the near future:
“We’re building tools for publishers and investing more and more in our own apps to ensure that you have a great experience everywhere you experience Twitter, no matter what device you’re using. … Ultimately, we want to make sure that the Twitter experience is straightforward and easy to understand — whether you’re on Twitter.com or elsewhere on the web.” – Sippey
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