Friday, July 13, 2012

Improved Searching on Twitter


Twitter introduced new features for its search bar recently. Though not innovative, the search features will make finding things on Twitter (users, hashtags and mentions) much easier. Among the new features are search auto-complete, results from people you follow, and results for people's real names as well as their user names. The search updates were later followed by updates to both their Android and IOS apps.

In May the company also added spelling correction features and related search suggestions, which directs users to other terms if the topic searched for is being discussed more heavily under a different hashtag or phrase.

This is a big progress in making the website simpler to use but there is still room for improvement, such as the ability to search within one’s tweet history on the web and on your mobile.

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