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I think that Twitter search is a real missed opportunity, I was hoping that Google with all their resources would be able to capitalize on it, but looks like Twitter isn't playing along.

I did a university project (retreave.com) which used the streaming API to receive tweets, index the pages they linked to, and then provide a lucene based search engine for it. It's really cool to search for say 'design books' and see what your twitter network has reccomended that relates to it (and of course, the search doesn't just search the tweet text, but the page text as well). It ranked results based on social stature in addition to relevance (ie a link tweeted by lots of people is higher ranked)

Unfortunately the User Streams API only scales to a few users, and I've been waiting for 9 months for an invite to the Site Streams Beta, but looks like they don't want me to make their search useful either.




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