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Tuesday 10 July 2012

Twitter adds new features to improve search and performance

Twitter has added some new features to improve the site performance. Regarding search they have added a feature of Auto completing option to searchbox. for example you want search this website named mobihackman.in the moment you begun to write mobihackman.in it will automatically suggest the searching term.They have also added some other features.
Spelling correction:
Twitter will also correct spellings, which basically means that if the user misspells a term, Twitter will automatically show results for the intended query.
Related suggestions:
If you search for a topic for which multiple terms are used, the site will provide relevant suggestions for terms where the majority of thatconversation is happening on Twitter.
Results with real names and usernames:
If you search for a name, the site will show results mentioning that person’s real name as well as their Twitter account username.
Results from people you follow:
In addition to seeing ‘All’ or ‘Top’ Tweets for their search, users can also now see Tweets about a given topic from only the users they follow (that is if there are any available in the first place) when they select the ‘People you follow’ view. For example, if you search for Olympics 2012, you will find all the tweets aboutthat event done by the people you follow on Twitter.
“Today we’re introducing search autocomplete and ‘People you follow’ search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvementslike related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it easier to immediately getcloser to the things you care about,” wrote Frost Li, engineer at Twitter, in an official blog post

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