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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2008/12/23/twitter-relaunches-blazing-fast-people-search/

  • Ari Herzog · 11 months ago
    HAHAHA!

    Did you notice the "Did you mean..." suggestion under the search box once you see results?

    For instance, if you search for "ostrow," there's a friendly question:

    Did you mean jstroh?

    It defeats the purpose, and I still like Twellow better so I can search for people without knowing their names, but you're right, thanks, that this people search is lightning fast!
  • ssroslan · 11 months ago
    I find Twollow as a twitter spam.
    people that matched my keywords were too easily added to my followers and following list.
  • Mark Pollard · 11 months ago
    Brilliant! I missed this while it was in rehab.

    Mark
    Digital Strategy on Twitter
  • Jeff C · 11 months ago
    Finally. Been waiting for this for months. Thank you Twitter.
  • Shreya · 11 months ago
    Am a very recent member. Had been wondering why this feature not on twitter; good to know it was in rehab and is back now.
  • adam jackson · 11 months ago
    Sweet! The search for Adam and I'm on the front page. woot woot.
  • Justin Levy · 11 months ago
    It's great to see the people search feature back active. A search for "Justin" places me 3rd on the list :). I like that they give you the suggestion feature too if it's not able to find a name.
  • Mark · 11 months ago
    Nice! It's been a while.
  • tony · 11 months ago
    happy search is back. http://twitterlike.com
  • Adam @Pawluxury · 11 months ago
    Great post, Didn't know this feature was turned back on.
    Very cool to see we made the list for Adam in your Screenshot for #2.

    Thanks and keep up the great work.
    Twitter.com/PawLuxury
  • ssroslan · 11 months ago
    thank god!
    i've been complaining about this for a long time.
    But the problem of 'unable to add profile photo' still long overdue.
    Twitter, please fix this as well.
  • Small Business Marketing · 11 months ago
    It is fast. The search with an outlook address book doesn't always work.
  • thom singer · 11 months ago
    I am glad to see this useful feature return. It beats having to guess people's twitter names. I hated seeing it gone, as I used to use it a lot. I did not know it was back...nobody twittered about it. How can I expect to know anything any more if my twitter friends do not mention it often.
  • Arsen Yeremin · 11 months ago
    search.twitter.com started indexing my name again. I guess I can go flag my getsatifaction.com twitter complaint as done.
  • College Admission · 11 months ago
    How is this people search better than Yahoo's or myspace, or others.
  • Devans00 · 11 months ago
    Now if Twitter could only make the general Search easily available from the home page, I could die happy.

    Now if I want to look up a topic, I have to type search.twitter.com.