Twitter now allows you to search for any tweet or message since 2006
The managers of the social network Twitter have announced a new useful feature for the most curious users And they have managed to index all content published since 2006, the date on which the journey of the began 140 character social network But what exactly does this mean? Neither more nor less than the possibility of search up to the first tweet or message from any account, regardless of the date of antiquity.Something that the most troll users (with the most bad temper) who want to dig into the past of some user, or so that any curious person can inspect the evolution of their own messages or those of any other person, will like a lot. account
This is due to a laborious and almost titanic indexing work that has been added to the usual work already carried out by the social network and his engineering team. In other words, being able to recognize billions of tweets and messages sent from all accounts so that applications or the search engine of the web version can show them as results. An enormous volume of work due to the large number of accounts constantly posting messages at all hours during what is now eight years of functioning
But what is really interesting about this process are the practical applications that can lead to the indexing of all the contents of Twitter Thus, apart from gossiping about other people's accounts, Twitter becomes a huge content library A record that can be addressed at a particular time in recent history to collect data, photographs, messages and opinions about any important event or event. Whether on a more local or personal level, such as a birthday party where congratulations and photos were published, or sporting events such as the Superbowl, going through countless moments that have left their mark on Twitter as natural catastrophes, accidents, news and a very long etcetera
To do this, it is only necessary to carry out a normal search through Twitter, being able to use the applications for devices Android and iOS in each case.When performing a search, the All tab effectively collects all the tweets or messages related to what was searched for. In this way, the user can go back to the date they want by scrolling or searching with specific criteria in the search engine of the social network of the 140 characters
Along with this, in addition, by working with a larger number of previous tweets, it is possible that some of them have special relevance. For this reason, not only will they be indexed in order up to the origin in the All tab, it will also be possible to find important contents among the Featured , even if they are older. A great point in favor of obtaining extra data around any situation, event or turning point sought.
All this work will begin to be reflected in the next days both through the website of Twitter as through the mobile applications, when the service starts showing all these indexed tweets from the very sources ofTwitterA feature that many users will know how to take advantage of.
