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Twitter's search results are now sorted by relevance
Earlier this year, Twitter started moving away from the reverse chronological timeline and started prioritizing algorithmically "relevant" tweets in order to keep users more engaged. Starting today, Twitter will now be ordering its search results the same way in hopes that more relevant results will improve the search experience as well.
Google is now including tweets in desktop search results
Twitter and Google have been playing together more as of late. A few months ago, Google started including recent and relevant tweets alongside search results on your mobile phone. Today, the company announced that those same results are being included on desktop search as well. As on mobile, the integration of Twitter with Google's desktop search engine will give you different results depending on what you're looking for. If you search for an individual, you'll get a scroll of their most recent tweets. But searching for a more general topic (like the "NASA Twitter" example Google uses in its blog) will show both tweets from the official NASA account as well as tweets from others users talking about NASA. Some of our staff have seen this feature rolling out already, but as of today it should be open to all.
Twitter's cooking up a way for you to archive your old tweets, relive your Bieber fever again and again
Frustrated by a lack of access to your thoughts and feelings about world events and sandwiches circa 2008? Twitter's working on a way to let users export and download old tweets into a file, according to CEO Dick Costolo. As far a service for search all users, the exec doesn't see such a solution coming any time soon, telling reporters, "It's a different way of architecting search, going through all tweets of all time. You can't just put three engineers on it."
