Thoughts on Twitter Search

Why don't you try out using Twitter. It's so easy, just go and tweet something whenever you feel like it. It takes like ten seconds.

Anyway twitter search is all the rage nowadays. The problem is that it's just a bunch of random stuff. Is it going to trend better as time goes on? It's not clear to me why, since once you have enough results it doesn't really matter whether they came in the last 10 seconds or in the last 10 minutes.

Although that's talking about the type-1 twitter search - the sort where you go into search.twitter.com and search for "wii fit" or whatever. Type 2 is when you actually twitter a question and then a lot of people respond to you. I'm not sure if that scales either; there is a certain effort vs reward tradeoff. But that might scale. The problem is that it is fundamentally harder to answer a question than to ask a question, so is everyone really going to want to answer as many questions as they ask? How do you prevent leechers, in a sense. Also it is annoying to have to wait a while for an answer. But that could scale. For the type-1 twitter search I'm not sure how they improve quality from this point.