Why Twitter Is My Personalized Search Engine
Mar 05 2009 
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Mike Arrington is right, it’s definitely time to start thinking of Twitter as a search engine. I’m going to tell you exactly how powerful Twitter’s search data is and why you might want to start using Twitter’s search engine a lot more than Google.
SxSW Interactive
For the past three day’s because of Twitter, I’ve been able to score a Press Pass for SxSW Interactive (free) and stumble upon a ride to Austin from Atlanta (I just need to help with driving) with the awesomesauce Grant Robertson, lead blogger of Download Squad (a must subscribe), and his awesomesauce other half Christina Warren b.k.a @film_girl from The Unofficial Apple Weblog. They’re native residents of Atlanta. Guess who told me that? I’m generating great sponsorship offers to accommodate the outrageous hotel prices for SxSW Interactive because of Twitter search also.
After all this, the surprises didn’t stop there. Today I became a panelist for the panel: Can the Afrosphere Survive the Age of Obama (If you have room on your schedule, stop by). I DM’d the Moderator of this panel a few months back when it seemed she might need an extra panelist. I saw her tweet about the dilemma because of Twitter search. I highly doubt she would’ve been in Google’s results and she was exactly who I was looking for. Now I have access to a few Film panels too.
All of this was made possible with a few connections that gave great advice, and a lot of playing with keywords on Twitter’s search engine to find everything I needed to gain sponsorship. Twitter was where I gathered the bulk of my results. Not our beloved Google.
Pay Attention
How I came across the information is by paying attention to the context of the tweets and who tweeters were responding to. Twitter’s search engine is full of connections. You only have to pay attention to the stream. The results are so much more personalized all because it’s YOUR creation. It’s a human powered search engine in a lot of ways! It has a TON of potential once the masses figure out how to use it.
Something to ponder, yes?
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I agree fully. But I think it's more my network is my search engine and twitter is just one part of my network. wrote about it here… http://tinyurl.com/cg2d45
Congratulations,Corvida The rewards that you have “earned” are well deserved your contributions to Twitter and Friend Feed have helped me immeasurably. Leigh has a valid point about the network and I appreciate your being a part of my daily informational stream. I know just from the little time that I have been following you that SXSW and the panel that you participate in will gain from your participation and can look forward to the insights that you so professionally share.
“days” not “day's”
I think the internet makes people sloppy.
is facebook also making the conversation stream searchable ? 175 mil. people stream would be v. powerful and potentially take twitter out of the race.
Good for you!
Enjoy each moment and the opportunities will only increase!
Very good, Corvida! You're a genius, I love you and I'm truly delighted for you :-) Now one question that was raised by Sash in these comments: What will happen to Twitter if Facebook makes the conversation stream searchable?
Wow, I'm so inspired! I need to be your twitter disciple.
I have tumble weeds rolling through my tweets. When I hit submit crickets start chirping.
i totally agree.
google maps shows you the world as it was *a while back*, and google search is the same way. twitter has a lot of value for me because is is real-time.
facebook is a social network; twitter works through networking. twitter wants to grow much faster than facebook or even myspace. also, twitter is doing smart things, or getting lucky – every time i look at trending topics, i see something there that catches my interest.
Twitter is definitely a great forum for individuals to self-promote. Because of its nature it is an excellent measure of current topics of concern and fads of desire. It has opened up yet another channel that unleashes certain factors of human nature. Innovation is taking us places, new depths of the human spirit, and I am only now trying to take note of it on my new future technology concept blog Future Techie. I love it.
i don't know why i'm still not use twitter… ;)
great post, points.
Facebook is in the process of making their conversations searchable (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=96275977130). and microsoft owns their search, so we can see that this new venture has a lot of power invested in it.
Facebook is in the process of making their conversations searchable (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=96275977130). and microsoft owns their search, so we can see that this new venture has a lot of power invested in it.
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