Twitter has added some new search features recently, which brings the keyword search bar to every Twitter page and also shows the most popular trending topics from across the site. These are features that you find on most social networking sites, so why is it such a big deal that Twitter has added them, years after initially launching its microblogging platform?
The potential of Twitter lies in search. As an ever-growing community of short updates, a great deal of this content needs to be better archived and accessed. It’s been difficult to do this from a user standpoint because of the missing or dismal search features.
Twitter has managed to survive so far largely in part because of the third party search engines that have cropped up specifically for Twitter users. Summize, one such third party search application, was eventually acquired by Twitter and soon became the Twitter search page. The problem with this page is that it was separate from the main Twitter site.
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