In July, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone declared, to much media splash, that Twitter is the world’s fastest growing search engine.
In May, I started noticing that Twitter search, that formerly extended back 10 days, was only going back 4-5 days. What gives, Biz? If it’s growing so fast, why cut back the time of searches?
Eric Rumsey is at: eric-rumseytemp AttSign uiowa dott edu and on Twitter @ericrumseytemp
Hi Eric – you got us thinking about real-time search depth, Tweet archiving and reaching all the way back, which is what we’re trying to do with Replyz. We posted an in-depth response here: http://blog.replyz.com/?p=104 Please let us know your thoughts. Thanks.
Thanks Replyz, for the comment and the mention on your blog. I’m excerpting from your article there:
Eric says: I’ve been noticing this consistently since May, so I doubt that it’s temporary.
Use Topsy …
Taken from Mike Cane’s Twitter reply to this article:
mikecane: @ericrumseytemp Use http://topsy.com/ <- it goes back months!
Thanks for responding Eric. Yeah, you’re right, three months at 5 days would seem to indicate a permanent pattern. Noticed something was up, but hadn’t put a number on it until I saw your post. Btw, have you seen Google Realtime? Will be interesting to see how far back they go…