Twitority: A New Take to Twitter Search

Twitority,
an authority-based search engine launched by Jon Wheatley, has evoked mixed
reactions. Usage of the word authority is perceived differently by different
bloggers.

Twitority
was a dramatic response to Loic Le Meur, a blogger who was either mad or bored
on a weekend to ask for Twitter search by authority. Twitority
allows restricting search to Twitter users with large number of followers.

But
many bloggers differed from Meur s view and immediate reactions appeared from Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch and Robert Scoble of Scobleizer. Kincaid posted that the Twitority service was
still bare bones and based on user s authority user s with any authority, a
little authority and a lot of authority. 

Meur's
usage popularity in context of authority was criticized. As per Meur's
perception of authority, a Twitter user with a large number of followers has
more authority. This might not serve the purpose since, as Kincaid noted,
even popular keywords resulted with minimal or no results.

However,
Scoble expressed an entirely different opinion
about Twitority. He believed that ranking merely on basis of followers was mere
idiocy. He says, It is far more important who you follow than who follows you:
if you follow people just to get followers you ll end up being overworked, deep
in information overload, and superficial to boot.

Point
here is: Twitority has twisted a feature expected to be in Twitter Search. We
also believe that Twitter Search results should be more relevant to the search
query and should ward-off noise/useless updates. Blame it on web search engines
like Google, Yahoo or MSN who have intoxicated many with accurate results.