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Firefox for Android Gets Twitter Address Bar Search

A new add-on is now available for the users of Mozilla's Firefox for Android mobile browser, bringing them closer to their accounts on the micro social networking site Twitter. We're referring to the new Twitter Address Bar Search add-on, which is meant to bring the Twitter search to Firefox' Awesome ...

2 June 2011
12:51 GMT

Twitter Adds Relevance to Search Results, Debuts Firefox Search Add-on

Twitter has unveiled an updated search engine which is not only faster than its previous iterations, but also operates differently serving, by default, the most relevant results rather than the most recent. It now also shows image and video results, fitting with the company's increasing focus on media."Today we&...

2 June 2011
08:54 GMT

Twitter Unveils Massive Overhaul of Its Search Backend

Twitter has revealed that it had been rolling out a new search infrastructure for the past weeks. The transition is now over and Twitter says that the new backend scales a lot better, is significantly faster and comes with a few enhancements for the users as well. "If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn&...

7 October 2010
06:35 GMT

Twitter Search Now Lists People As Well

With the World Cup craze over, Twitter can start focusing on new features again. And it isn’t wasting any time; Twitter is now listing account names with searches to highlight Twitter users that may be relevant to that particular query. Twitter has had a people search feature for several years, but it only now ...

14 July 2010
03:54 GMT

Twitter Chirp: Twitter Search Is Bigger than Yahoo and Bing Combined

Depending on how you look at it, Twitter couldn’t have picked a better or a worse time to anger its developers. With less than a week until its first developer conference, Chirp, it launched its own official BlackBerry app and acquired the makers of the most popular iPhone app, Tweetie. Effectively, Twitter wou...

15 April 2010
06:00 GMT

Twitter May Be Working on an Improved Search Engine

Twitter may have started out as a way to share “what you are doing” with your friends but increasingly it’s used as a way to spread news and to keep up with events faster than with any other channel. This makes its search engine one of its most valuable assets but Twitter search has been constantly ...

14 August 2009
05:43 GMT

New Twitter Homepage to Come Next Week

Twitter is known for its simplicity and minimal approach, which is visible in its design and features, even in the 140-character limit. Simplicity is part of the Twitter philosophy but that doesn't mean that new features can't be added while staying true to the mantra. Traditionally, the microblogging servi...

24 July 2009
05:02 GMT

Real-Time E-mail Harvesting on Twitter

Just one day after a method of harvesting e-mails from Twitter was exposed on WebProNews, a proof-of-concept Twitter e-mail grabber was released. The technique relies on using the service's real-time search function to exploit the carelessness of users who post their addresses in status updates. There is nothin...

14 May 2009
06:21 GMT


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