Twitter Search To Become Real Search. The fact that Twitter's search is now often faster and more relevant than any other search engine out there is not a secret anymore. It is, however, a very limited search engine: it merely indexes a bunch of tweets. In its current state, it's great for tracking conversations, but it will never be a competitor to Google. This is about to change. According to CNET, Twitter's new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, said that Twitter search will soon start crawling the links included in tweets. Jayaram gave another very interesting hint at where they're going: Twitter Search will also get a reputation ranking system. When I recently wrote about Tweefind, a Twitter search that also takes rank into account, some commenters asked why are we putting so much emphasis on a very beta, buggy service.
This other part of Twitter's search strategy is equally important, and together these might prove to be the one-two punch they need to put some fear into their competitors. TweetDeck v0.24.1 Pre-Release: Facebook Integration - TweetDeck's posterous. Cloud Based Twitter Search is Great for Searcher's Block. Ever wanted to search for something, but you weren't sure exactly what? Sounds like an oxymoron, but it does occasionally happen, especially if you're searching through Twitter conversations. For example, you might want to know what people have been saying in conjunction with the phrase "I'd like to.
" Or, you want to see what keywords would go well with "social media? " Cloud.li is a cloud-based Twitter search engine that provides you with a list of commonly used keywords and phrases for another phrase, in cloud form. Type in "Mashable" and you'll get a cloud of keywords, those most prominent being the biggest in the cloud; in this case, those are "social, media, facebook, behavior, user, change, etc. " Now, click on any of those words and you'll get a Twitter search for the chosen word plus the keyword "Mashable. " FriendDeck: Now an Adobe AIR App for Tracking FriendFeed - ReadWriteWeb. Last week we introduced you to FriendDeck, a new online application that lets you monitor FriendFeed in a way that's very similar to how the Adobe AIR app, TweetDeck, monitors Twitter. Within FriendDeck's columns, you can track FriendFeed searches, users, friends, lists, rooms, and more.
Recently, FriendDeck developer Paul Kinlan released an Adobe AIR application of his FriendFeed tracking tool. Although still rough around the edges, this app has potential to become a viable alternative interface to FriendFeed for the service's heaviest users. FriendDeck's AIR App: Still Early, Could be Awesome One of the best features of the new AIR application is how it syncs with the online version of FriendDeck. But let's be clear. Yet despite these problems - all of which are being addressed according to the developer - I still can't get enough of FriendDeck. Use FriendDeck to Follow Your Lists, Rooms, and Searches There are a couple of ways you can use FriendDeck.
Too Complicated? Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model - ReadWriteWeb. Twitter...what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who've never really tried it. Even among true believers, though, it's been hard to figure out how this much loved company is going to afford to stay alive. How will Twitter make money? A number of people noticed a new change made to Twitter today that could show just how it's going to happen. Of course this is just speculation, but we believe it's a pretty good guess that this could be what goes down. Selling Friends Professional hustler turned CEO Jason Calacanis spelled it out on Twitter tonight.
Who says you can't buy friends? In order for this to work, Twitter is going to have to make these recommendations a lot more prominent in the user experience and it's going to have to increase the quality of the non-paid recommendations. A Logical Opportunity Outside reports indicate that many Twitter users struggle to find friends on the service.