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> And Twitter gives you better results than asking The Google? Possibly. He got several direct, trusted answers from people risking social capital to help him
by teej 18y ago
> And Twitter gives you better results than asking The Google?
Possibly. He got several direct, trusted answers from people risking social capital to help him out. There are lots of cases where personal recommendations are more valuable than indirect, impersonal discussions or reviews.
- biohacker42 18y agoYes but that's one example. I suppose the opposite could easily be true for other examples. My question is how is twitter better then google in the general case?
- swombat 18y agoIt's not. I never suggested that it is, either. Google is great for some kinds of searches. Twitter is great for some other kinds of searches.
- biohacker42 18y agoI am one of those people who just don't get twitter. I have some friends on it, it seems to me all they use it for is pointless chit-chat. I am slightly intrigued by the potential for real-time search. Like the picture of the plane in the Hudson which appeared on twitter. But how do you rank search results? What about people like me, whose work requires deep focus, how would I with minimal twittering ever generate enough followers to get something out of a twitter search?