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Why I Don’t Want Search On Twitter
via SheGeeks by Corvida on March 17, 2008
With the news of FriendFeed’s launch of the search feature for its users has come the questions of where’s Twitter’s search feature? Let’s think about this for a moment…What’s the greatest thing about Twitter?
For me, it’s the amount of information that’s both selective and useful, and thrown my way every day by my followers and those I’m following on Twitter. I could use any major search engine, at any given moment, to find the answer to quite a few of the questions I ask on Twitter. I could wade through hundreds and hundreds of articles on these search engines to find only five (5) that were worth my time and effort. I could do all of these things, but as I find more informative and intelligent people to follow on Twitter, they make using search engines seem like a tedious chore!
Now, this doesn’t apply to everything that I think to search for. Twitter isn’t somewhere I can go to find music that I want to download. That’s something I’d search and ask about elsewhere. ;)
In my eyes, having a search feature would take away from the user experience of networking, and connecting with those whom you’ve befriended and those that have befriended you on Twitter!
Twitter is the place to go to for those great, hard to find, resourceful articles! With Twitter, you have intelligent people at your fingertips to help you find what you’re looking for more efficiently than any search engine ever could! As I stated in the beginning, I could use a search engine to find what I’m looking for. Yet, I’d rather use Twitter, to connect with great minds that have scoured the internet for hours and have come out with bookmarks and links to great articles on just about everything! The search feature could definitely aid in the finding of previous messages and whatnot. Though, I’d rather for users to seize the opportunity to build upon the relationships they’ve made with others on Twitter first.
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