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One small "Feature" for twitter, one giant leap towards "Monetization"!
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!!
Find more such buttons here
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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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!!
Find more such buttons here
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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