Twitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006. “Our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every tweet ever published,” said Yi Zhuang, who led the team working on the project. Use cases Zhuang cited for the new infrastructure include results for entire TV and sports seasons, conferences, industry discussions such as in the mobile payments field, places, businesses, and long-lived hashtag conversations such as #Ferguson, #HongKong and #Election 2012.
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Twitter Opens Entire Multibillion-Tweet Gold Mine to Searchers
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 20, 2014 01:18 PMTwitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006. “Our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every tweet ever published,” said Yi Zhuang, who led the team working on the project. Use cases Zhuang cited for the new infrastructure include results for entire TV and sports seasons, conferences, industry discussions such as in the mobile payments field, places, businesses, and long-lived hashtag conversations such as #Ferguson, #HongKong and #Election 2012.