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I believe that talking about "social real time search" as Google's biggest competitor is vastly overstating things. Twitter simply cannot produce most of the co
by whughes 18y ago
I believe that talking about "social real time search" as Google's biggest competitor is vastly overstating things. Twitter simply cannot produce most of the content that Google can provide. Short opinions, yes. Lengthy product reviews, no. If you're trying to figure out how to solve X problem (say, in an OS installation or in your code, for a technical standpoint), Twitter may well be useless. It's difficult to fit specific, real information into 140 characters.
- tonystubblebine 18y agoTwitter search isn't good for reference searches. But it's great for real time opinion and real time opinion can be extremely valuable. As an example for anyone running a business, that real time opinion is a great way to get and respond to feedback from your customers.
- diego 18y agoHere is a good example: http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=skittles http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=skittles We would love to be able to add other status feeds to this tool but so far we haven't found any with a volume that's a significant fraction of Twitter's. A live feed from Facebook would be ideal.
- paul7986 18y agoWell pondered if it would be complimentary or a killer. Though when I use Twitter to search on a real time topic there are more then just thoughts, as Twitters are also sharing and pointing to resources (links) to more info about said topic. What could be done here is incorporate bit.ly into twitter search and have it calculate the most shared (Retweeted) link on said topic and list them somewhere in the interface. Like US Air into Hudson... what is the most shared/relevant (RT) link at that moment. It possibly could be a competitor or possibly just very complimentary to Google.