May
4
2009
twitter search: consumption becomes conspicuous
On Thursday, Twitter launched it’s search box universally throughout the twitter service. Quoting from the Twitter Blog announcement.
With this newly launched feature, Twitter has become something unexpectedly important—a discovery engine for finding out what is happening right now. (emphasis added)
Twitter, the business, is making important intentions known. Search is core to their evolving model. It’s rapidly stepping up from the original founder’s concept of people updating each other with status messages into a role as a dominating force in the evolution of the live web.