There is good news for Twitter users as
they can now look for tweets which are more than a week old. The
microblogging site is now planning to update its search capabilities to
accommodate this long standing demand for including older tweets too in
search results.
The infrastructure
engineer of Twitter, Paul Burstein, in Twitter blog confirmed the news
about the update and also said it may take a few more days for the
update to come out officially. Twitter search results earlier displayed
results that contained tweets going back about a week. Twitter is now
developing an option to include all the older tweets.
The infrastructure engineer also said
that users will be able to see only a small number of tweets out of the
total tweets sent once the update is complete. Twitter will now surface
older tweets in its search results based on various criteria.
The
tweets that will be arranged and featured on the search list include
favorites, clicks and retweets. The percentage of tweets featuring on
the search list will see a relative increase in steps over time. The aim
of Twitter primarily is to surface best content for users' query. The
recent update comes from the site after its update of iOS, Android and
mobile web apps.
The recent plan of
Twitter to update its search capacity is definitely a welcome move
considering the steep increase in number of posts each day. It is to be
noted that the Super Bowl performance of Beyonce alone is said to have received 5.5 million tweets.
