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Twitter Search Goes All “Knock Knock, Neo” On Its Engineers

Here’s an interesting quote from an article about changes Twitter’s going to make to its search algorithm:

“Finally, a real-time search story from [Twitter Vice President of Operations Santosh] Jayaram, which he used to illustrate the immediacy of Twitter Search during the panel discussion: he told of being in the Twitter offices in San Francisco on March 30, when the Twitter engineers noticed that the word “earthquake” had suddenly started trending up. They didn’t know where the earthquake was. Several seconds later, their building started to shake. The earthquake had been in Morgan Hill, 60 miles south of San Francisco, and the tweets about the shaker reached the office faster than the seismic waves themselves.”

FYI, Twitter plans to index the content of links included in Tweets — Can you say, “spam”? — and is working on a reputation ranking system.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).