What do I know about Twitter? More than I knew a couple of weeks ago, for sure. I signed up because it is a requirement for digital literacies class - I stay because I discovered I could not only follow friends and people I know but also people relevant to my teaching practice, and to my life, like Obama and Alec Ross in the State Dept.
Thus, I read this article with true interest. Ah, I thought, competition for Google and it would be faster and more relevant. However, I read it twice and cannot see how Twitter search will do more than continue to search for people. OK, it will have a reputation ranking system. So what if all tweets will not be equal. It will still be seaching tweets limited to 140 characters - not exactly google type search for information. It will "crawl" links that are twitted - this might be useful, to a limited extent. I still don't see the "real search" hyped in the title. This is not competition for google. But wait, there is more to learn -- evidently Google and Microsoft are fiercely competing for the favors of Twitter, in order to "boost their real-time search efforts in the midst of their raging search war." Perhaps there are more information riches to mine in Twitter than I realized.
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