I see it live, but it's totally broken for me, so I can't search at all right now. No results come up for searches on anything or person, and even the trending results are empty. I have heard some people say they're getting results to show up, so I don't know how many people are having the same bad experience that I am.
Susan
· 9 months ago
Yes, it's all live for me-makes total sense, especially the search bar.
Lesley Johnston
· 9 months ago
Thanks for this blog post, my homepage has changed but lots of my friends haven't yet and they didn't know what I was talking about! Love the new features.
Alex Schleber
· 9 months ago
While the new features are to be applauded in principle (what took THIS long?), the real question will be whether Twitter Search will continue to allow for full time range on back-searches. Currently, during (presumably) heavy day-time server loads, you may notice that search results only go back 7 days or so.
Is this a precursor to Twitter selling the deep data-mining to 3rd parties for a substantial fee? Will additional usage of search through the main interface make it necessary for Twitter to throttle the results permanently?
If so, the reason this would matter is that it would effectively make it hard for you to e.g. get your own data back out in a useful way, e.g. by searching over all your past tweets by keyword + "filter:link", making it in essence a personal bookmarking system.
And on keywords/topics of interest to you, you would need to pipe the search results continuously into a separate repository in case you wanted to archive them somehow for later availability.
Yep, can see the changes from Sydney this morning.
Andy Zweibel
· 9 months ago
I've got it, and I love it! It's very convenient not having to navigate to a separate page (search.twitter.com) to do my searches!
I would prefer, though, for the new navbar to also be placed on the search results pages. Perhaps also to have our custom backgrounds behind the search results, so it just feels like an extension of the homepage rather than a completely different entity.
identify_urself
· 9 months ago
This search function is much better, way user friendly.
Calli
· 9 months ago
Nothing here yet - can you comment your location? Galway Ireland
Andy Zweibel
· 9 months ago
As much as I love it, I would prefer to see the search results page have the same navbar as the homepage (for consistency), and maybe keep the custom backgrounds that we all see on our homepages. It would make the search results page seem more like an extension of the homepage, rather than a completely different entity!
FlyHigh78
· 9 months ago
Same here. My Interface changed but obviously not yet applied to all accounts?!
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Dan Martin
· 9 months ago
Here in Bristol, UK, my @BusinessZone feed has been updated with the new functions and all seems to be working fine. My personal @Dan_Martin feed hasn't yet been updated though.
I'm one of those who mostly uses the Twitter web interface for searching tweets so the change is a very welcome development!
Nina Leon
· 9 months ago
Not everyone yet. Mine is still the soon to be old version.
Maurice
· 9 months ago
Haven't seen it yet. Looking forward to it's release. Are they doing a partial release?
Adam Ostrow
· 9 months ago
probably being rolled out to users over the course of hours/days ... that's how most big sites seem to do it
Loren West
· 9 months ago
Yep - the new home page is alive and well up here in Seattle. I like it.
Tobi_as
· 9 months ago
Already works in Germany, too.
Jeff Pester
· 9 months ago
Nothing yet other than a very small tweek on the "Find People" page - US Central Time Zone. From the comments it looks like they're rolling it out outside of the US first.
I have used it at least 25 times in the last hour. Is search sponsorship next?
Jim
· 9 months ago
"but with the bulk of Twitter users still using the Web interface" I read just that week that it's estimated that 80% of Twitter users access via a 3d party app - Was that inaccurate? here's link http://tinyurl.com/bv6yet
Adam Ostrow
· 9 months ago
hmm not sure where they got that number ... ours comes from twitstat, we wrote about it here - http://burnurl.com/VFJ6hG
lazygirlsinfo
· 9 months ago
None of my tweets show up in the search results!
Does Twitter block people that they don't like from search results?
I do not see it as of 8:26 a.m. Eastern time. I am fairly new (12 days or so, and only about 100 followers), so perhaps it is being rolled out by some set of priority rankings.
Evan
· 9 months ago
Not working for me at all...blank pages...
Kris C
· 9 months ago
Evan, me too. Still search is not working after being placed on my page four days ago. Having to old-school it over to search.twitter.com which is an inconvenience from just clicking on a link. Twitter has GOT to do better with interface rollouts than this!!!
Felix
· 9 months ago
Twitter Search certainly has huge potential which explains why twitter is tinkering with it. I have blogged about why I think its going to be the next big thing as a kind of conversational search service.
Still nothing to see of the new twitter-features. What a slow rollout...
David Miller
· 9 months ago
Giving these tools to twitter users will make it easier to keep up with whats going on. There have been alot of times I would go to http://search.twitter.com to check for replies now can be done from your home page. :-D
Justin Moore
· 9 months ago
Love the idea, but still no search/trends feature on my home page. Not even text. What gives?? This still seems to be a work in progress, and although I agree that it's going to become standard for the web interface, I think we may have jumped a bit early to conclusions regarding when and how this was going to happen. Love that real-time info :) @TJustinMoore
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Is this a precursor to Twitter selling the deep data-mining to 3rd parties for a substantial fee? Will additional usage of search through the main interface make it necessary for Twitter to throttle the results permanently?
If so, the reason this would matter is that it would effectively make it hard for you to e.g. get your own data back out in a useful way, e.g. by searching over all your past tweets by keyword + "filter:link", making it in essence a personal bookmarking system.
And on keywords/topics of interest to you, you would need to pipe the search results continuously into a separate repository in case you wanted to archive them somehow for later availability.
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Twitter.com/AlexSchleber
I would prefer, though, for the new navbar to also be placed on the search results pages. Perhaps also to have our custom backgrounds behind the search results, so it just feels like an extension of the homepage rather than a completely different entity.
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I'm one of those who mostly uses the Twitter web interface for searching tweets so the change is a very welcome development!
So far, not live for me yet. Twitter.com/DanielMenjivar
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I have used it at least 25 times in the last hour. Is search sponsorship next?
I read just that week that it's estimated that 80% of Twitter users access via a 3d party app - Was that inaccurate? here's link http://tinyurl.com/bv6yet
Does Twitter block people that they don't like from search results?
http://twitter.com/lazygirlsinfo
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http://www.search1x.com/2009/03/01/twittertweet...
What a slow rollout...