However, it's more weird than I would have anticipated to see what people are twittering about your Google search phrase (even if boolean'd).
And it definitely shows the disparity between Twitter search and Google search. Google's PageRank for relevant results beats Twitter's democratic and/or anarchic search results.
However, since Twitter is real-time - search terms of current, transient topical nature like 'Susan Boyle' would definitely be more relevant and interesting. Also, AVC's article about linking being sent by friends points to a possible shift in Twitter's favor. And makes me wonder when Twitter will allow filtered searching against your follower graph.
"found that among the thousands of 14-24 yos they surveyed, 88% of the links they followed were sent to them by friends. They're not clicking on ads or even using search results as much as older demos."
However, it's more weird than I would have anticipated to see what people are twittering about your Google search phrase (even if boolean'd).
And it definitely shows the disparity between Twitter search and Google search. Google's PageRank for relevant results beats Twitter's democratic and/or anarchic search results.
However, since Twitter is real-time - search terms of current, transient topical nature like 'Susan Boyle' would definitely be more relevant and interesting. Also, AVC's article about linking being sent by friends points to a possible shift in Twitter's favor. And makes me wonder when Twitter will allow filtered searching against your follower graph.
"found that among the thousands of 14-24 yos they surveyed, 88% of the links they followed were sent to them by friends. They're not clicking on ads or even using search results as much as older demos."
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/04/the-power-of-passed-links.ht...