Twitter Makes Search More Relevant

Includes pictures and video in search results.

Padmini Harchandrai|Jun 02, 2011, 10:23:42 IST

Twitter's all about pictures this week and today, they announced that they've improved their search function. Through the search function, when you look up a trending topic, they not only show you more relevant tweets, but also show photos and videos along with tweets. The photos and videos show up on the same results page as the tweets. If you use Twitter with Firefox, you can enter a #hashtag or @username in the address bar and you will be taken to a search results page for that item.

Search and photos in a combo

Through the announcement, Twitter also snuck in the fact that they're releasing their own photo sharing feature over the next several weeks. You will be able to upload pictures from twitter.com itself as well as through its mobile applications. Twitter's partnered up with Photobucket to do the behind the scenes work. For users without smartphones, Twitter is working with mobile carriers to allow those users to send their pictures via text message (MMS).

By Padmini Harchandrai

Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.