Micro blogging phenomenon Twitter has finally rolled out its new and updated right hand side column which makes search more central to the service and also introduces trending topics as well.
Search on Twitter is in its simplest form and, as the rest of the website, is powered using some Ajax techniques. You can save your searches but the you won't find explicit Boolean capabilities here, just basic word search. You will be able to access the normal search page as well.
The focus on search comes as the online service tries to improve the retention rate of the service which is currently very low compared to other social networking websites like Facebook or Myspace according to Research Analysts Nielsen Online.
Search on Twitter is in its simplest form and, as the rest of the website, is powered using some Ajax techniques. You can save your searches but the you won't find explicit Boolean capabilities here, just basic word search. You will be able to access the normal search page as well.
The focus on search comes as the online service tries to improve the retention rate of the service which is currently very low compared to other social networking websites like Facebook or Myspace according to Research Analysts Nielsen Online.
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