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November 3, 2011 12:03 am GMT
In what appears to be a test among some users, Twitter is adding "Top News" and "Top People" results at the top of its realtime search results. When you search for a hot story like "gmail" (which came out with a buggy iPhone app today) or even "Humanoid" (a new startup I just wrote about), you will see a highlighted boxed result with a link to a top news story along with a thumbnail image from that article or blog post. Similarly, a search for anyone who is Twitter-famous will turn up a "Top People" result with their Twitter profile picture and a link to their stream.I first noticed this earlier today, and I thought it was a paid search ad. But it is actually a way to help users discover the most popular content and people. Presumably, the Top News items are based on retweets and some sort of whitelist Twitter keeps for news sources. Although it seems like the Top News story sometimes rotates to another source if you repeat your search.
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Twitter Tests Top News And Top People At Top Of Search Results
In what appears to be a test among some users, Twitter is adding "Top News" and "Top People" results at the top of its realtime search results. When you search for a hot story like "gmail" (which came out with a buggy iPhone app today) or even "Humanoid" (a new startup I just wrote about), you will see a highlighted boxed result with a link to a top news story along with a thumbnail image from that article or blog post. Similarly, a search for anyone who is Twitter-famous will turn up a "Top People" result with their Twitter profile picture and a link to their stream.I first noticed this earlier today, and I thought it was a paid search ad. But it is actually a way to help users discover the most popular content and people. Presumably, the Top News items are based on retweets and some sort of whitelist Twitter keeps for news sources. Although it seems like the Top News story sometimes rotates to another source if you repeat your search.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0rd3wGn_Bdw/
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