"The "most recent" tweets are still available Dewald." The impression I formed was that the entire search experience was going to be converted over to "relevant" tweets at some point in time. I.e., all returned tweets will be picked for relevance and time-sorted tweets will not be shown.
Anyway, never mind. I've suddenly found something to do (taking down the Christmas decorations), so I will now STFU. On Apr 6, 3:22 pm, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > While we should never kid ourselves, we should also try not to be > sensationalist about things. Conspiracy theories aside, as Twitter gets more > and more users, search results sorted strictly by time can in a lot of cases > provide massive velocity that is very noisy and not very relevant. Sometimes > the answer to "What's happening right now?" > > Here's an example:http://skitch.com/marcelmolina/n7thi/picture-5 > > The "most recent" tweets are still available Dewald. We aren't hiding them > from you. They are right there. If you are more interested in > @Evilknievel213 or @iHollywoodDance then you might be a little miffed that > you have to scan past two results that are more "newsworthy" and a I would > posit in most cases a more compelling answer to the question "What's > happening right now?". > > If your issue here is with search.twitter.com as an end user and not the API > then perhaps this forum has ceased to be the optimal place to share your > feedback. We're not trying to ruin your search experience. We're trying to > improve it by helping you wade through the noise. If you prefer to not have > help wading through the noise you are the 20% case. > > We're not monetizing earthquakes... > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let's not kid ourselves. This change to "relevant" tweets is ad > > revenue related, driven by a fear that Google will siphon off too many > > search queries. > > > 2 cents. *clink-a-ling* > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > > -- > Marcel Molina > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
