Twitter waited a bit too long to implement this feature. But better late than never!

The Replies section has been spruced up and reads as @username instead. From now on you can expect to see all mentions of your username (tweets containing your username not only at the beginning but anywhere in between) to be available under the @username section.

This new feature not only gives web users a reason to rejoice, but it also makes twitter app developers' work a bit easier. Until now, every app developer (if they wanted to display tweets containing your username anywhere in it as an @reply) had to make use of the twitter search API along with the regular twitter API for retrieving all your replies. But not any more!

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I do not know when this was introduced, but I found it out today. The old pagination in twitter expected us to click the 'Next' button.

'Next' is passe now. I noticed twitter has added a 'More' button at the bottom of your timeline and on clicking it the next page results would be displayed in the same page! Now that's what I call AWESOME!

This small but significant improvement is making me love the twitter web interface more than ever! And considering the last two modifications which were a step towards monetizations (read them here and here), this is a welcome change.

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Did you see the latest change that has happened to your twitter homepage?

If you look carefully, below the area where your follower and update counts are displayed, you can now see a small info box which gives you meaning of various words!

 

As you can see, there's a definition for "twitter search" here!

Now that seems interesting and as I mentioned in my previous post, this again could be an excellent way to monetize twitter!

But the big question is, how many would really be using the plain old twitter web interface and not adopting to some of the super Adobe AIR clients such as TweetDeck or Twhirl?

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Twitter has enhanced its web interface and integrated twitter search with the main site.

Whats more exciting is that twitter seems to have taken a giant step towards Monetizing itself! When you go in for search, the results page would display "Featured Users" on the right sidebar. This as far as I can tell is the way twitter is planning on monetizing itself for now.

Of course, this is not the end but the beginning of many monetization ideas we would see from twitter in the days to come.

Whatever twitter plans to do with the monetization part of it, the search engine integration seems to be a neat option right now. You can check out trending topics, enter the keywords you want to search and get results in an interface that is completely integrated with the twitter web interface.

I particularly liked the results page as its not the same as we see at search.twitter.com. The sidebar displays user names that match your keyword, Featured Users, Trending Topics and something called as Nifty Queries.

Apart from search, you can also see direct links to your Profile and Settings under your username on the homepage.

To sum it all, the new enhancements on the twitter page simple ROCKS!!


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Update 1 :  Like all things twitter, lots of users (including me) experienced an empty blue page at times while using this new search feature. You type in the query and hit search and you just see a blue page! Don't worry, it's not the blue screen of death ;o) A couple of page refreshes displays the search results.

Update 2 :  Going by what a fellow twitterer said, I guess the new twitter Search functionality hasn't been propagated to all the twitter profiles. If you don't see the search feature, don't panic. Check back after a few hours. You should see it by then!

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