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Thanks, this is useful. I don't understand why Twitter itself doesn't provide this option. I can search for tweets near me, people, tweets with links, etc. but
by nc17 16y ago
Thanks, this is useful. I don't understand why Twitter itself doesn't provide this option. I can search for tweets near me, people, tweets with links, etc. but not what I missed when I wasn't online. Could you combine this with other services such as Facebook or email?
- dbuthay 16y agoprobably they didn't do it because it takes too many resources to have a separate index for every user. I thought about adding Facebook status updates to the index. If people start asking for it, I'll consider doing it.
- danwolff 16y agoAre you saying that you can't understand why Twitter's services provide an incentive for you to be online all the time?
- nc17 16y agoGood point, hadn't thought of that. I do wonder if proper search would affect people's time on Twitter. I don't find myself coming back for fear of missing out on something, but I do scroll down a lot when I visit. This must be expensive to them, as it causes lots of unnecessary db queries.