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Twitter Fail Whale - Is Twitter growing too fast?

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:49 AM PDT

This is a great article about twitter’s growth and it is indeed growing fast. I truely believe that it is emerging to be a great platform for pushing out information. I think it has a RSS like feel to it and I will write more about this in another blog entry.

Twitter Search - Another search engine or a differentiated concept?

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:28 AM PDT

If you have not tried Twitter Search, definitely do that. I believe that twitter search will be big for certain types of searches. If you are looking for information that is best served by individuals rather than an insitution then twitter search is the place. Let us take few interesting search examples:

Live event related information: People are twittering away their thoughts and perspective and this is the place to find out all that is going on at the event.
Traffic conditions: try searching traffic in the twitter search and you will see the power of crowd wisdom. This can become the best traffic site of all.
Another example is shopping deals and I am sure there are many more to come.

Few things that are very unique about twitter that places it in an interesting position when it comes to search is that all the data is user generated, current data, geographical information available and somewhat of a social network feel to it.

I think there will be tons of applications springing up on top of twitter search API very soon.