Twitter announced on Tuesday that it is going to make it easier for users to find every tweet they sent. For years, users have been capable to use search vi twitter.com to search tweets about some topics and to emerge tweets about particular events.
The social network firm thinks they could develop on a particular tweet in a user's timeline or on a particular date, users had to use third party search tools like Google. That will change soon! On Twitter's engineering blog, the firm said that Twitter will now index all public tweets since 2006. The blog post gets into some new search nuts and bolts infrastructure.
Indexing the billions of tweets that have been posted in 8 years and to make those tweets emerge fast and easy, Twitter says that it has an inverted index of a week's worth tweets and real-time index, the full index is more than as large as 100 times and it grows by billions of tweets every week.
In their official blog, the company explains,
" Earlier this year, we set out to make Tweets richer and more engaging, giving users more ways to Tweet beyond text. We brought videos, Vines and GIFs into the home timeline, and introduced features that let you post multiple photos, tag people in photos and express yourself using emojis. To showcase this entire media, we launched a new profile design. We also introduced a new way for partners to share premium video and audio on Twitter, so you can preview and play with just one tap. Our search engine excelled at surfacing breaking news and events in real time, and our search index infrastructure reflected this strong emphasis on recency. But our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every Tweet ever published."
Twitter is talking about of billions of data, the details about how Twitter was able to obtain this archive are notable, but we know they just want to discover how it works. The question is, are the users happy in this endeavor? Users are not happy about as there are past tweets that they are embarass about that might require them to delete those years.
