Comments on: The Search Engine Known as Twitter

By: Is Google buying Twitter?

Is Google buying Twitter? — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:28:51 +0000

[...] the launch oh http://search.twitter.com – the Twitter search engine, many people have begun to see Twitter as a player in the search field. Combining this data, with Google’s huge index the possibility of an incredibly accurate real-time [...]

By: Its complicated | b r a n t s

Its complicated | b r a n t s — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:59:35 +0000

[...] some speculation about Google buying Twitter. Google should definitely be interested considering Twitter’s prowess in real time search. As this Adage article says, its way beyond the contextual search that Google [...]

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:23:38 +0000

For finding other blogs/marketers in various niches of interest, Twitter will rock. I agree with others though, if they attempt to branch into "normal" search engine functionality, they may indeed fail miserably. Dennis Edell's last blog post..Blog Comment Tip: Add A CommentLuv Link With No Plugin (sneaky!)

By: Twitter unterstützt Informationsbewertung » Tourismuszukunft: Institut für eTourismus - das Tourismusblog

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:38:23 +0000

[...] fehlt gerade die Zeit es genauer anzuschauen, aber die Idee und die Potenziale die es bieten könnte, sind vielfältig: Ein Twitter [...]

By: buster

buster — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:27:53 +0000

call me crazy, i just think twitter is another dot com tradegy a decade after the 1st dot com bubble. it’ll take a while for the investors to figure it out, so let’s all enjoy it while it’s free.. kinda like AOL back in the day

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By: Cribbed Content for March 6th | TrishaLyn

Cribbed Content for March 6th | TrishaLyn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:44:37 +0000

[...] I wrote another guest post for Marketing Pilgrim, this time on The Search Engine Known as Twitter. [...]

By: Search behaviour is changing significantly | Internet Psychology by Graham Jones

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:48:07 +0000

[...] note on Twitter is so much less effort. And is it any wonder, therefore, that many people are using Twitter as a search engine. Instead of having to commit the effort to trawl through endless lists of potential web pages to [...]

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:59:02 +0000

One concern I have that any information that comes from Twitter will come from only those who use Twitter. Right that is growing at a ridiculous rate but only represents about 6 million people and their opinions. This will certainly be an ongoing development worthy of keeping an eye on. Personally, I am all for more opportunities to get good information. It will just be up to me to decide what's good and what's bad based o the source. Frank Reed's last blog post..ROI Revolution Rocks!

By: abdellah

abdellah — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:56:14 +0000

Hi, I enjoyed your post, I agree that in order to monetize twitter, people have to make some use of the growing twitter data base. but as you mentioned in your post people pay for relevant result. before making money twitter team will have to think deeply about an efficient data meaning schema for all their tweet. it is really fascinating that me too Have posted on the same subject yesterday. abdellah's last blog post..Is twitter search the new real time search engine you can count on? (part1)

By: SEO India - Jaya Kumar

SEO India - Jaya Kumar — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:12:12 +0000

Considering the fact that most people make false representations on the internet any search results coming from social networks or even regular search engines cannot be 100% true. So, even someone considers a social platform as a search engine, the euphoria may not generate too many opportunities. But its somewhat useful and can supplement regular SERPs. SEO India - Jaya Kumar's last blog post..Hosting multiple domains

By: PerfectMOney Share Idea

PerfectMOney Share Idea — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:38:52 +0000

I have follow and comment this discussion before at TC,and I say yes”for twitter search to be more advance,more “search result and “may use it for twitter main income maker,.however, HOW to separated leaving message that content ‘invitation to buy”and purely friends who like to give “recommendation to there other follower that the product is great ,will be another work for twitter not to counterfeit twitter democracy to recommended what they like to other friends that follow there life every post

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:11:18 +0000

I am still not sold on twitter becoming competitive with other search engines. I think that the frame of mind that people who use twitter are more of an entertainment frame of mind than what the average searcher would use a search engine…

For example, if I am having an issue with fleas on a dog, I could type in a search query for it to find my answer…..I seriously doubt that I would get the same information from twitter, not because people don’t have dogs with fleas but because they use the platform more for entertainment.

However, I guess I could see using twitter to see what other people felt about a new movie or CD out there….

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By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:19:18 +0000

@ Heath - I think Twitter is already contributing to buying decisions, for the savvy user of Twitter. I've seen many product recommendations and usually do a search on Twitter to see what others are saying before I make a substantial purchase. Maybe that makes me an advanced Twitter user, but it's not unimaginable that behavior like that can spread to the masses of users. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..Jon Stewart Rips CNBC

By: Eddie Gear

Eddie Gear — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:38:09 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve probably said this on various other blogs where I’ve read information about twitter. Twitter is one of the fastest growing web applications. It’s only been twitter for the last two months. Now, even I’ve started using it and find its work system to be very informative, especially when you have a lot of people to follow. Its more about getting updates from the people you follow than other actually following you.

Cheers,
Eddie Gear

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By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:59:46 +0000

Twitter is certainly great, but I don't think it's going to be threatening Google any time soon. Advertisers are drawn to getting their message in front of lots of people, but with twitter the engagement mentality seems much different. Advertisers will bid high on terms in traditional search because they can easily judge the impact through the sales process. Twitter, seems to me, more of a flow of consciousness around a term. Unless twitter can find a way to contribute to buying decisions I think it will run into the same wall as Facebook. Lot's of engaged users ignoring your ads. Heath's last blog post..SEO: Strategic Web Asset Promotion (SWAP)

By: jamesq

jamesq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:52:00 +0000

I've used it on a couple of occasions now both to identify segments of the Twitter population and also to identify Tweets around specific subjects. A great little research tool whether through tweeting to your followers or just identifying trends. jamesq's last blog post..ISLE OF MAN SAVINGS BANK LAUNCHES TWO NEW ACCOUNTS

By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:14:06 +0000

I agree... it gives much more targeted results if you're looking for specific mentions. And I just started using the Tweet Later digest and it came up with a lot of great results. Not exactly real time, but good. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..Getting Started in PPC

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:03:58 +0000

I think Twitter search may one day be better than Google (or may already be now) for specific kinds of searches, but not all. Basic information searches probably will never be better on Twitter. How much faster is it to type “capitol of saskatchewan” into Google and get an answer than to Tweet it?

However, there will probably be a good-sized segment of searches that will be better served by Twitter, especially things like opinion (and mass opinion even more so) and vetted resources.