Comments on: Not News, But Certainly Interesting

By: Magazin

Magazin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:39:48 +0000

How about this query: Since majority of users don’t go to Twitter homepages, except before they decide to follow someone, why bother advertising there at all? Definitely a good point. It would be interesting to see stats on how much time is spent on homepages—I spend time on my own, of course, but I also linger on other people’s profiles to catch up on their streams, see who they’re replying to, etc.

By: andilinks

andilinks — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:46:23 +0000

I have a twitter search box at the right end of the top menu.

By: PD

PD — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:37:08 +0000

Why don't they put a link to Twitter Search with the rest of the links in the top right hand corner?

Unless you have that little definition-style link under your number of followers as you show in the picture, Twitter search is very difficult to find.

I only found it because I read your blog. But once we found that search function, it was much easier for us to see how Twitter could fit in with our business.

I just don't understand why they make it so difficult to find Twitter Search.

By: andilinks

andilinks — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:00:27 +0000

I have been watching Twitter's numbers on Alexa almost from the beginning.

Twitter Search can definitely take a big bite out of Google, I use it now for many types of search and I would not object to an "AdSense type" block of ads where the current promo sits.

And my current perception of Google's AdSense (non-transparent!) revenue stream is such that I'd jump at trying an alternative on my own site as publisher.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:44:19 +0000

it looks like twitter is testing advertisement platform for future. Currently i guess they are promoting their own products/services…