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This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
by rrggrr 11y ago
This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
- axg 11y agoI think part of it is due to the fact that Google has greater access to a broader audience. Not everyone will search Twitter for "Donald Trump" but they will certainly search Google - so Google is providing a way for the candidates to take advantage of what is already happening probably millions of times every day.
- PhrosTT 11y agoI also hope it will expand the conversation to longer formats... Twitter and Instagram are only worsening the "Soundbite Politics".
- ianstormtaylor 11y agoAgreed. I'd argue further that Twitter has done close to nothing to make their search a useful feature in the first place, which is why people aren't searching Twitter with "Donald Trump". If I was Twitter, this would be very worrying. All they've managed to do so far is "firehose search", which is only useful for realtime events unfolding. They probably should have been thinking about "topic search" and "person search" for a while now...
- rjurney 11y agoYeah, the inability to search your Twitter feed is simply infuriating. This is an embarrassingly parallel problem, so the issue isn't scale slowing the development of Search down. Twitter just doesn't give a shit.
- calinet6 11y ago*twitter does not have the systems in place to be able to give a shit.
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- macrael 11y agoIsn't this more just a response to Twitter? People already find what the politicians are saying on their twitter feeds...
- ebbv 11y agoWhat exactly do you wish Twitter had done? Allow longer posts? That's not going to have the big positive impact some people think it will. Hosting longer posts on Twitter isn't going to bring more users to Twitter or keep more people more engaged with it. This is a big deal because Google is leveraging their dominant position in search to coerce people into using it as a social platform.
- trollingineer 11y agoNext time invest in a company that knows what it's doing.
- jeo1234 11y agoThis is a bit of a snide remark on my part, but maybe the fact that that Dorsey is trying to run two separate companies at the same time may explain some of Twitters aimlessness.
- kmfrk 11y agoYou will use the gifs and like them.