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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. This week I want to speak about a new development in the Twitter retweet wars. In the first episode we have seen a massive rebellion against the new retweet functionality introduced by Twitter itself. A huge wave of resistance has forced Twitter and most third party Twitter clients to ensure support for the old school retweet with the added “RT” or “RT:”. This week we witnessed a new chapter of the retweet wars.

The evil Twitter empire has attacked the rebel forces by removing traditional retweets from Twitter search.

Both searches from the search box and by clicking on popular hashtags on the frontpage have been robbed of the “RT” containing retweets. Only retweets posted using the built in Twitter retweet feature were accepted in search results.
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Twitter search results for SEO. Very relevant, aren’t they?

Last week the new Twitter search “ranking popular tweets on top” went live. It’s a huge disappointment. It only shows two or three seemingly popular tweets on top of the latest tweets not ordered in any manner, just like hitherto.

Also the “popular tweets” seem to stem from some form of limited static white list of websites. Recently our hugely popular Google Analytics list didn’t even show up while other less popular but more reputable sources did on the same day. Continue Reading »

In this edition of our weekly Twitter column I’d like to ridicule Twitter search. Yes, no mistake here. We know now, after I’ve predicted it a few weeks ago that

instead of just showing the latest ones.

Search Engine Land asked when the news Twitter search ranking will get live but they received a “no comment” kind of reply. Twitter search is at least 10 years late when it comes to search technology so a few weeks or months sooner or later do not matter. Also, who needs Twitter search?

I’ve mentioned third party Twitter search engine Topsy in the past. Topsy is the IMHO best Twitter search engine around. Topsy already rates or ranks tweets according to several factors like most  probably the number of tweets and the influence of the Twitter users.
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Try searching for yourself, that is for your username.