Comments on: Twitter Has Eliminated People Search. Good Luck Finding People.

By: FaceReviews: Facebook News, Application Reviews and Social Networks

FaceReviews: Facebook News, Application Reviews and Social Networks — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:31:09 +0000

[…] few month ago I wrote about the Twitter people search not working. Then Twitter simply shut it off and you could no longer find it. Well I am happy to report that twitter has brought this […]

By: ShriNagesh

ShriNagesh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:27:21 +0000

Twitter people search was very useful tool. Its pathetic that twitter disabled the functionality.

I looked for alternatives and found some great tools. A compilation of 30 alternatives to twitter search can be found at http://smartadvise.info/alternatives-to-twitter-search/

I find these tools are better choice than twitter people search

By: cdarcy

cdarcy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:12:57 +0000

I am so very MAD at Twitter for this! And I LOVE Twitter…

Like you I have been “waiting pateintly” for months now for the search feature to be back.. and today, hopeful as always, I went to check only to find it GONE!!

WHy oh WHy? This was more than a useful feature.. it is necessary for my Twitter use! I knopw I wrote them, and I can only encourage others to do the same. You can go to help and then submit a request demanding a search feature to be installed again!

Bad Twitter.. bad bad!

By: Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:08:31 +0000

I can’t believe it either! I haven’t looked at the feature in a while anyway because it was never working. I looked the other day and couldn’t find it! I’m surprised. In fact, I would think there would be an even more advanced search capability that can include location and other key words from profiles.

Thanks for confirming that I wasn’t going crazy that it had disappeared!

By: richandcreamy

richandcreamy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:17:48 +0000

Thwirl searches people just fine!

By: David Sterry

David Sterry — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:22:49 +0000

Since Twitter disabled people search a few weeks ago, we’ve seen a steady increase up to a few hundred people searches a day at http://tweetscan.com/usersearch.php

We’ve currently indexed about 100k of the most recently active users and if you give it a try I’m sure you’ll find many of the folks you’re looking for. If you have any feedback to offer, do contact @weex or @tweetscan or just tweet about it.

By: Lorenz van Gool

Lorenz van Gool — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:35:14 +0000

Isn’t this done because of all the spammers on Twitter? I can imagine that without the People Search it becomes less easy for spammers to follow you.

By: Peggy Dolane

Peggy Dolane — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:09:17 +0000

Sounds like an opportunity for someone else to develop a twitter search app. Tweetdeck is a good candidate. Have you noticed how they now have Twitscoop, keyword/search tracking built in eliminating the need to visit Summize (oops search.twitter.) Plus you can even find out when someone joined twitter off of tweetdeck by clicking on their name and seeing their profile.

By: Mark Scrimshire

Mark Scrimshire — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:51:26 +0000

There is an alternative to get close to a Twitter People Search. I have modified a Google Search to make a passable alternative. Check it out on my blog:

http://ekive.blogspot.com/2008/11/twitter-eliminates-people-search-here.html

By: Kim Dushinski

Kim Dushinski — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:15:11 +0000

You are so right. This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. I found a lot of people on Twitter using that search function - either by name or by topic. If someone has a word in their bio that tells me we would be a good connection I’d like to find them that way.

I’m hoping that they are putting that function into search.twitter.com. I’ve got my fingers crossed.