Twitter and Search

Twitter previews new social media search tool
02/04/2009

New search tool for social media site Twitter

Issue Codes Social Media

Twitter has outlined plans for its new social media search tool, Twitter Search, in its official blog.

The social networking website revealed that they were eschewing the usual search approach that forwards users on to another page and have instead set up a system whereby results appear directly on the homepage.

It claimed it is happy with the way the search tool, which will be located in the sidebar of the Twitter homepage, has been implemented so far and claimed that the support infrastructure needed for the new application is almost complete.

A select group of Twitter users are currently testing the search function, but it appears that it might not be too long until the search tool is rolled out to everyone.

Twitter claimed it has made the search "far more awesome" since testing began a few weeks ago.

At the end of last month, the website updated its replies feature and now refers to them as 'mentions'.