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Two days ago, the most outrageous thing to happen to me while on twitter happened! I was locked away in TwitJail for 13 hours! I am often in TwitJail and usually just accept it as it usually lasts no longer than 1 hour but to be stopped from tweeting for 13 hours is ridiculous! I am an avid twitterer and (as I have blogged before) I feel it penalises me for using their service!

I am not sure what happened but it must have been a glitch that managed to get me locked away for that long but that cant be right. I thought about it and came to this conclusion about the situation. I was in TwitJail for 13 hours, however if you look at the time I got out, it was 00:00 GMT (midnight). This then makes me think that twitter thinks I was over the daily status update limit (and not just the hourly one) but in that day I had only sent 277 tweets (to be confirmed) which again begs the question as why I was in TwitJail for so long!

I am not 100% sure how TwitJail is run at the moment but i dont think it is run fairly. There are two ways I feel twitJail could be run that would be fair on Twitter’s users:

  • At the beginning of each hour no one is in TwitJail. If you send more than 100 tweets in the hour then you will be in TwitJail until it is reset at the beginning of the next hour. The problem with this method is that it would cause a great deal of server load at the beginning of each hour followed by reduced server load at the end of the hour which blows the whole point of TwitJail which is to balance server load!
  • Whenever you send a tweet it checks how many tweets you had sent in the hour before and if this number is greater than or equal to 100 it will not allow your tweet! This is the fairest way to do it and would mean that you are not kept in twitjail for too long! The major problem with the current system is that it will penalise you for sending 1 too many tweets! If you sent 99 tweets then waited a bit, you would not be penalised or put in TwitJail but sending that 100th tweet could result in you being locked up for (usually) longer than one hour! At the moment, twitjail is a punishment for using Twitter; not a control!
  • There should also be a way of monitoring how close you are to twitjail; if they had this then users would be able to control and moderate themselves and would also have no right to moan like I am doing now!

    I have no problem with the concept of TwitJail but it needs to be run properly!

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    A Summer of Blogging

    June 30, 2010 by Fabrizio


    Sorry about my recent absence from blogging! I have been so busy at school with my GCSEs, sorting yearbook and what not that I just have not had the time to come on here and write however I do hope to make sure that this blog will be regularly updated this summer! I have lots of plans and lots of things to blog about so please wait expectantly. I am still working on finishing up the yearbook but should be able to slowly ease myself back into the blogging world!

    Another thing to look out for is when I finally get my YouTube account going! I have so much video to edit and upload but I lack the processing power to do so! I have lots of reviews as well as just random videos! Whenever I upload a video it will be accompanied by a blog post and now with my HD2000 they should all be high quality, HD videos! I also have Adobe Captive 4 and may start doing a few tutorials for you guys!

    To keep up to date make sure that you are subscribed to this blog and that you follow me on twitter!

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    Twoolr: Has TweetStats finally got some competition?


    Please note that this blog is still being expanded on. When a completed version is published we will inform you! Feel free to read the run-down so far and get your Twoolr account but be aware that not every feature has been covered.

    Yesterday, I was checking my TweetStats as I do most days just to keep up on what was going on, how well I am doing and just to make sure my addiction to Twitter had not died. I have always liked TweetStats as it is quick, convenient, aesthetically pleasing and intuitive! Until now I have not found anything that remotely compares. All other sites either do not have as much data and detail in the statistics; do not have nice, easy to understand graphs; and do not cover as many stats as TweetStats does.

    The new player is called Twoolr. I managed to get access to the private beta and here is my review (if you want your access to the private beta read to the end of this blog).

    Twoolr requires that you login with oauth whereas TweetStats allows you to just type your username in. Each has their induvidual advantages. By just being able to type any user name it saves time and cuts out the need to login; it means you can check the stats for other people; and it means you can access your stats anywhere (even where twitter is blocked). However, using oAuth gains the advantages of being able to access private data that TweetStats cannot.

    First use of Twoolr (understandably) takes some time to start loading tweets. This is common with statistical sites as they need to crawl back through your tweets to gather as much data as possible. Unfortunately sites are limited to only being able to find a maximum of 3200 tweets thanks to the Twitter API Limits. This is a bit annoying for me as I have almost 10 times this limit in tweets; when I sign up for a new service like this, I would love for it to go all the way back. Since it does not do this my stats only cover a few days and I cannot explore all the features.

    Once Twoolr has loaded your stats, you are presented with a page where you have 2 choices for types of statistics as well as some basic stats at the top. The two options keep the statistics organised and will be more useful as the site expands to cover more statistics. It does however mean that the site is more complicated and quickly accessing all your stats can be more difficult. One of the nice features of TweetStats is that all you statistical charts about you tweets are on one page; you can view everything all at the same time.

    Before going any deeper into the site, let’s see what we get with those quick stats. On the left you get stats about how many tweets you have and how often you tweet. This is based off of the number of tweets you have and the time since the date you registered to twitter so is an all-time average. For me these are statistics that I like to see. Although TweetStats do show the same statistical information, you have to wait 8 hour before you can update it, whereas on Twoolr, I have noticed that the statistic are update instantly which is a nice feature (as long as it is not wasting API calls on every page load – if it is then there should be a certain amount of time that the information is cached for so that it does not steal API calls).

    On the right hand side of this, you get stats about your friends (people you follow), followers and a friend to follow ratio. Friends and followers can both be viewed on you twitter page without going to Twoolr, but is nice to have that quick reference. The feature, I do like is the friend to follower ratio. Not many sites have this but this is important if you want to be a credible Twit; the higher the number the more credible you will be seen to be. This information also updates with the other information when you load the page!

    To better utilise this information, I think Twoolr should introduce statistics with a day-by-day graphs to show Tweets per day (average), Tweets per month (average) and information about followers and friends. The Tweets per Day and per Month statistics would show a daily graph of how you have affected the value of each on that day. This is a feature I have not seen anywhere before and would be unique to Twoolr.

    For the statistics for friends and followers, both of these could be put on the same graph using the left hand axis with the friend to follow ration overlaid using the right hand axis. This may be very complicated to achieve and might look messy but I think that would work well. Another graph I think would work well would be a scatter graph with values taken from each day after signing up with followers on one axis and friends on the other axis. This would allow people to view if there is a correlation between how many followers they have and how many people are following them.

    In the usage statistics, there are 4 sections for statistics: Frequence, Repartition, Clouds and Clients Used. To view each of the sections they must be expanded. This (in my opinion) is a bit of a pain and unnecessary, however there is the show all option.

    The first section, Frequence (probably better named Frequency), shows how much you have been tweeting recently. This is similar to the TweetStats view that you would get when zoomed into a specific month. I would like to check what the graph would look like zoomed out further but at the moment there are not enough statistics on me for this to be possible!

    There are a few things that I particularly like about this graph that makes it better than the one found on TweetStats. The first point is that it breaks it down into Tweets, ReTweets and Replies so you can see a more precise picture of what sort of tweets you are sending. Secondly I prefer the interactive graph over the click to zoom funtion on TweetStats. The interactive chart means you can pick a very specific data range and also zoom in/out to see the data in a way that best suits your needs. One thing about this graph is that I cannot help but think of Google stats which use the same graphs. :P

    The next statistics are in the “Repartition” section (which would probably be better named “Distibution”). This section has 4 sub-sections and shows the accumulation of all tweets logged at different times (hours of the day, days of the week, weeks of the year and months of the year). I find these sorts of statistics helpful when you want to analyse when you tweet in general rather than in a specific space of time.

    Above is the graph showing how many tweets you have sent in all the time that twoolr has been logging at each hour of the day. This graph is available on TweetStats as a bar graph (which I feel is more appropriate) but it does not have as much detail. Like other graphs, this graph is spilt into Tweets, RTs and Replies. Similar data is shown for the days of the week, weeks of the year and months of the year.

    Unfortunately, despite the fact you are given lots of statistics as shown above there is no way to find out exactly how many tweets you sent in a specific Week, Month or Year. TweetStats’ main graph shows how many tweets are sent in a specific month which can be zoomed into to see a specific day. Twoolr currently only provide tweets on specific days (in their Frequence section). In the Frequence section I feel that (like in the Repartition section) there could be choices at the top for Day, Week, Month and Year.

    The next section of this page is the Clouds section. Clouds are a service that many websites offer so it was interesting to see how Twoolr would use these. Most sites build a cloud then display it to you and that’s it; Twoolr however continues to build on that customisability of data so that you can find exactly what you want.

    Bellow the Cloud type option and above the actual cloud you will notice a bar with two sliders on it. You can adjust those sliders accordingly to set the number of occurrence of the words in the cloud; for example, above it is set to “50-100″ so any terms in the cloud will have been mentioned between 50 and 100 times in your stream. This helps you quickly adjust your cloud to get the terms you want. For example, by lowing the limit you get rid of commonly used words like “a” “the” or in my case “:)” (clearly because I am such a happy person :P ). By increasing the minimum, you get rid of a lot of words that have been used just once. To properly analyse the cloud, you must adjust these to your needs otherwise you are shown too many results. Here is an example with a slightly wider range (10-1237):

    The reason I went with 10 as the base for the query is that if you go any lower the cloud can get ridiculously big! As mentioned you also get your “Hashtag Cloud” and “Reply Cloud” which are pretty self explanatory. The Hashtag cloud shows you most used hashtags and the reply cloud show who you mention most (rather than just who you reply to).

    One great feature about the Clouds on Twoolr is that once you find an interesting item in the cloud, you can then click on it and get a cloud generated for tweets which contain that term, hashtag or reply. This is a great feature for going into deep analysis of your tweets. If I were to use this I would use it for analysing the tweets (and getting a cloud) for my tweets that mention a specific user to see what sort of terms you use when communicating with them.

    The last thing in the Usage Statistics are the “Clients Used” stats; this is a fairly basic stats that is also found on TweetStats. This pie chart simply shows which clients you use for interacting with twitter and what proportion of you overall tweets they consume. On TweetStats this is displayed in a bar graph but I think that a pie chart is more appropriate. One thing I would like is the ability to find out an exact figure for the number of tweets sent with each. Currently you can hover over a segment and get the percentage that it takes up but not an exact value (on TweetStats it is the opposite); it would be nice to be able to see both!

    Although I have mentioned various times about RTs being shown, Twoolr, shares a common bug with TweetStats; it only classifies old style RTs as a ReTweet and does not include the new-style RTs which is a bit annoying but will be fixed soon enough, I hope. Another issue where RTs and Replies are shown separated is the Tweets statistic; in my opinion the Tweets statistic should not include replies and RTs if they are separately accounted for but they appear to do so.

    You may have notice that through this rundown of Twoolr, some of the terminology on the site is not in perfect English. This is because the site is designed by a French man but I am sure that with time and user feedback these minor issues will be ironed out. This does not impact the user as they can fully understand what is being written about.

    Another bug that is consistent through out the site is that whenever a username that has numbers in it is used, that stats will show the username only up to the point where the numbers begin. For example, “@person123″ would be displayed as “@person”. This can cause some confusion and should be fixed.

    Overall, I feel that although TweetStats is more feature rich at the moment and that I do preffer it, that since Twoolr is still in Beta that there is a long way to come and that when Twoolr goes public that it will be an overall better website to be able to privately check your statistics on but for sharing purposes, TweetStats wins as it requires no authentication to view stats.

    I have been generously given 30 tokens (invites) to give to 30 of my readers! If you want access what you have to do is quite simple:

  • Ensure you are following me, @flungo, on twitter (it will not work unless you are and you should be following me anyway).
  • Follow this link
  • Click “Sign In”
  • Check out Twoolr :)
  • It is that simple! If you have any problems or comments please leave them bellow. If you have any recommendations or feature requests also leave them bellow and I can pass them on! Let me know what you think of the site!

    I will update this blog as i discover new things or changes take place so watch this space.

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    Facebook Page and Dedicated Twitter Profile Up!


    I have good news to announce! The Facebook page is now up and running and has been set up to automatically post new items onto this page! There was a bit of trouble getting this working as most Facebook WordPress Plugins would only update profiles and not pages. I eventually found the solution and this feature is now running so that you can get the latest updates from my blog on your Facebook News Feed! All you need to do is go to my page and become a fan!

    As well as this, there is also a new dedicated Twitter profile for all site updates to be posted on. This provides a few advantages for the site! First of all, if you want updates from my site without all my other updates, then follow this account and blog updates is all you will get! Secondly, my main twitter account is regularly in TwitJail which makes me apprehension about blogging at these times and the update will not be posted, however with a seperate account it is near impossible for this to happen and it means that when my main account is out of TwitJail I can ReTweet the post when I am out!

    Please follow the new Twitter profile and become a fan on FacebookFacebook!

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    Twitter finally rewards the biggest twits!


    On Friday the 5th of February, at about 6/7pm GMT there appeared to be a strange anomaly going round on twitter! People who already had high tweet counts were suddenly getting even higher ones! I first notice this when reading a tweet from @MOn321 on twitter! My initial reaction was “WTH? I could have sworn that @MOn321 only had 12,000 tweets or something likt that the other day and there is no way he could have tweeted 24,000 times in the space of a week without me noticing!”

    I was right! There was no possible way that he could have tweeted that much! When @MOn321 told me that it was a glitch I was highly jealous of him and way wondering what had happened until @MOn321 noted that the same glitch had affected me in a much larger way!!!

    At this point I had to do some investigating! Was this glitch affecting everyone? What were the exact details of the glitch!

    From what I could tell, it appeared that the glitch affected users with a tweet count greater than about 2,000-5,000(I would have needed a snapshot of before and after the glitch to be more precise) and it trippled the users tweet count and the moment of the glitch occurring!I have no indication as to whether it has any relation to the API and whether it did not affect users using the web or not but if you have any information, please leave it in the comments bellow! :)

    Most user are finding this annoying but I am satisfied with this as compensation for the way that twitter normally penalises its most dedicated users!

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    Subscribe on Twitter and Facebook


    Before now you have been able to subscribe to me on twitter, however when doing this, you would get ALL of my updates and this was not convenient for those who were only interested in updates from my blog or to use the twitter subscription, purely as a way of subscribing to the blog. You can now follow @flungoBlog on twitter to get the latest updates from my blog. There has also now been a Facebook page set up which will also host links to new blog posts.

    This now provides readers with 4 ways to subscribe to this blog:

    The Facebook page and Twitter Page will not have updates posted for a month or more, but feel free to subscribe via either of those methods!

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    Twitter penalise dedicated Twitter users


    I was happily tweeting away yesterday when all of a sudden, TweetDeck started giving me a “Recipient not following you” error which is what TweetDeck’s last resort error is; if it does not recognise the error that has been returned it will return that error! Strangely TweetDeck have’t got an error message simply saying “An unknown error occurred” but this blog is not about the issues with TweetDeck (which I love dearly but being in Beta, obviously has bugs). At the time, I was ReTweeting and one of the common errors that I get that TweetDeck (once again strangely does not recognise), is the error that the Tweet I am trying to ReTweet has already been Tweeted by me!

    At first I took this as the case and tried to ReTweet something else. I got the same error again! I knew for a fact that I had not already Tweeted this and then attempted to send a normal Tweet. I cannot remember if I got the “Recipient not following you” or another undescriptive error (however I am pretty sure it was that same old “Recipient not following you” error) but at that point I presumed TweetDeck had stopped working (as it had done the week before). To check that it was TweetDeck and not that twitter was having issues (which I doubted as I was still receiving Tweets on TweetDeck, which was what happened with the problem I had with TweetDeck the week before) I went on to Twitter and successfully send a Tweet.

    From this I presumed it was the same problem as before and thought I would have to close TweetDeck and open it to rectify the problem (as I did last time) but before I could do that, I had to RT anything that had been loaded up in to TweetDeck already and reply to any tweets that were loaded and required a reply so I opened all those tweets on the web in multiple tabs, doing 5 at a time (so that my computer would not get filled with open tabs and end up confusing me) and I then clicked ReTweet on each and then confirmed it quickly changing between tabs in an attempt to get though it all quickly. When I returned to the first tweet that I ReTweeted to confirm that it had been ReTweeted, I could not see any sign that it had been successfully ReTweeted so clicked ReTweet again, and went to then next tab which had the same problem but by the time I reached the third one I realised something was up so clicked ReTweet then remained on that tab until I received an error message. After a few seconds of attempting to ReTweet, low and behold a message pops up at the top saying “whoops! Something went wrong, please refresh the page and try again”

    Initially I did not associate this problem with the problem I was having on TweetDeck so refreshed all the open tabs and had a look if it had made any difference. It had not so I then tried again getting the same message each time! Since I was able to Tweet, I presumed there was a problem with the Twitter ReTweet function , but when I went to make a tweet asking about this, I was greeted with the following error:

    I was shocked by this and it resulted in me having to stop tweeting for over an hour! I totally understand why Rate Limits are in place but I find that is penalising the dedicate users of twitter. If you look at my recent TweetStats you will notice that I tweet over 2000 times a month and in my opinion this show true dedication to the service. In my opinion, Twitter need to improve their data centres to accommodate larger rate limits. If twitter require more funding to provide this to their users I would be more than willing to pay an additional fee to have raised API limits! Just to clarify, I do not think twitter should charge for their service but I think that those who want higher rate limits should be able to pay and receive this!

    Twitter do currently offer Whitelisting which raises API calls to up to 20,000 a day but this is only for developers and applications in production and will only affect the API calls and not the Update Limit.

    The one thing that has really got me confused on this situation is the actual guidelines on the limits. The Update and API Limits state that you are limited to “1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile web, phone, API, etc. )” However, if you look at my statistics for yesterday, you will see I was no where near this limit!

    Admittedly, I was tweeting (well ReTweeting) at a rapid rate but if there is an additional limit which is on a per hour basis that would affect that, it should stated in the Update and API Limits.

    I am still very confused about this but I have to live with this! Have any of you ever got that error? Please leave your comments :)

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    My self harming habits…

    January 9, 2010 by Fabrizio
    My self harming habits…


    The following Tweets are tweets describing how I made lunch on the 12th of December 2009 and about the events that occurred at this time. I apologise for the delay in making this blog post, the reason was because it took me a long time to compile the tweets and format them :) Please read and enjoy

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    The most common question I get asked by friends who are slowly coming round to using the micro-blogging service, Twitter, is “How do I get more followers?” When asked last week by @CiaraJudge I realised it was a lot of effort explaining my tips to everyone so then decided to create this blog post as  something I can just link to and send to those who ask me in the future and as a guide for those of you who might stumble upon it. :)

    Here are the basic ways to get more follower with detailed descriptions explaing how each of them will help you gain twitter followers:

  • Sign up for Twitter
    This may seem very obvious and that is because it is, but if you dont have a twitter accont you cant get followers! If you are reading this I would presume you have twitter but if you dont this is my moment to inspire you to get twitter and here are my words of inspiration: “I use Twitter :P lol”
    Another reason I have mentioned signing up for twitter is because as soon as you sign up for twitter bots will find you and start adding you. Although these bots are not real people and will not interact with you, the do bump up your follower count and there is no complaining about that! However, a word of warning about these bots, you will get followed by a lot of spam accounts that follow you in the hop you will notice and look on their profiles, these profiles then link to pornography and other material you may not want to see!
  • Do not Protect your Tweets
    Although making your twitter account private will put you at a lower risk of receiving spam messages and keeps your info private, you wont gain any followers by doing that. By making your profile private it limits some of the methods that are listed below for gaining followers and will not help if you aspire to have a huge following.
  • Tweet
    This has got to be the most simple and easy way of gaining followers. It is as simple as just tweeting. However, most people will not understand how tweeting could increase your following. There are a lot of people (as well as bots) on twitter that will spend their time in the search, looking for other users who tweet about their interests. The more you tweet the more chance you have of a person or bot following you. Another thing about your tweets is that you should be broad and not just tweet about one topic; by tweeting about many topics it makes your twitter account available to a wider audience! It really is that simple. In my time on twitter I have notice an approximate, 1:20 follower:updates ratio, however this will not be precise, and will vary!
    This is one of the steps that wont make any difference if you have a private account; if you account is private, people cannot find your tweets in the public time line when searching!
  • Find/Follow Friends
    If you find people you know in real life on twitter, it is very likely they will follow you back. That is a fairly quick and simple way of getting followers. There are many ways to find people you know on twitter:

    • Search for User’s by name on the Find on Twitter page
    • Search for User’s who you have in your email on the Find on other networks page
    • Find users who have lists of users who you know (i.e. A list that has been made for your school or place of work – if such exists, ensure that you are on the list as this will increase your publicity to other twitterers)
    • Try asking people you have already found on twitter, which other mutual friends have twitter
  • Find/Follow twitterers of interest to you
    Using the the Find on Twitter page, find people/companies which you know and use and would be interested in the tweets of. A lot of twitter accounts have forms of auto-follow which will automatically follow those who start following it. When you follow those accounts your following will obviously rise. It will also make you more exposed to twitter bots who might crawl the follower of popular people to find more people to follow themselves thus increasing your following. Following more people may also help with some of the other steps that I recommend.
  • Invite Friends
    Inviting friends to twitter is a great way of helping the twitter community grow and it will also gain you more followers! If you invite someone to twitter they should follow you back and this will increase your following.
  • Reply to those you follow
    By replying to people you follow, they may see your tweet and start a conversation with you. From this point you should try and find common interest so that the person you are talking to think it would be a good idea to follow you.
    Doing this will also increase your tweet count and help in the same way that Tweeting helps. It will also allow people searching for people who send messages to that user to find you.
  • ReTweet those you follow
    ReTweeting is not the most effective way of getting follower but it can help and depending on which type of RT you use, will affect how it will help you:

    • New Style RTing: This is when you use the ReTweet button on twitter and it displays you ReTweet to your followers as if they were following the original poster.
      By using this style of RTing, other users will be able to find and follow your account if they click to see who has been ReTweeting a certain post. It is rare that another user will do this (hence why this may not be the most effective way of getting followers) however if a user wanted to find other tweeters who liked (and ReTweeted) the same post as them they may click this and follow you.
    • Classic RTing: This is when you copy the tweet and appending the suffix “RT @username:” replacing @username with the original poster.
      For the purpose of gaining followers this method would be more effect as it will be counted as a tweet on your account and will make it available in search allowing users to find you in the same way discussed in tip 4.
  • Search on Twitter
    In the same way that I said people will search for tweet matching their intrest, you can do the same. By searching a particular term that interests you, you can find other people to start conversations with and to follow. This will often result in the other user following you back. A good example of something to search for would be musical artists that you may like, you are very likely to find other people on Twitter who like the same artist that you can talk to.
  • Use Hashtags & Trending Topics
    Be using Trending Topics or popular hashtags you can increase the chance of your tweet being found when other user search. Trending topics and popular hashtags will be searched more often than just general terms. If you use of the hashtag or trending topic catches the attention of one of the people searching it, then they may reply, opening the opportunity to gain a new follower.
    UPDATE: If you are wondering what a Popular hashtag might include, it would include hashtags like #FollowFriday, #MusicMonday, #iwish, #nowplaying, # and #fail. You might also be able to find inspiration from What the Hashtag?!
  • I may elaborate on this in the future as I did rush this post towards the end but for now, those are a few quick steps to getting more followers :)

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    Google and Twitter: Together at last!


    I just did a random search on Google (can’t remember what for) and discovered a nifty new feature! If you search for the user name of someone on twitter on Google, then Google will recognise this and automatically add a box at the top for a select few of the user’s most recent tweets of that user. Here is a screenshot of when you search for flungo on Google:

    As you can see it will only show two updates and these updates may not necessarily be the 2 most recent. After being amazed by just the fact tweet were appearing on twitter, I noticed that there was a link that said, “Pause” and to me this implied that search was live! I tried testing this by making some for some reason (which I am yet to discover – if you know please comment) some of my tweets were omitted even after refreshing and these tweets never appeared on this page; Google must be using some sort of filtering to try and offer the most reliable tweets.

    Rather than messily extending down the page (which would be inconvenient for those who don’t wish to use this feature) when the page starts to load more tweets and updates, Google shows them but limits the size of the area, and adds a nice little scroll bar if it exceeds that area. An example of this is bellow when @MOn321 sent me a tweet. :P

    Even though not all tweets are show, you can view more tweets by clicking, “Latest updates for…”. By clicking this you will get a live search page that searches for you query:

    This view will display any tweets that contain your query. This view is accessible from any search (even if Google does not automatically show the updates on your main search) by clicking, “Show options…” at the top of the search then selecting “Updates” from the list of search types.

    I then decided to search for something that may find a few more results so I did a search for something that has been in the news for quite a while, “Tiger Woods“. Although the Latest Results did not appear at the top of the page it did appear but further down the page. It must use a similar ranking system to when positioning result in accordance to relevance. When I scrolled down, I instantly notice that the update was definitely live with updates coming in every few seconds and that this feature was not just limited Twitter; news sites and other sites that constantly have updates posted at a very fast rate were also being loaded in real time!

    To just see the sheer number of tweets that it could build up I left the page searching for “Tiger Woods” for a little while (it ended up being approximately 15 minutes). Google ended up finding so many results that the screenshot is almost 6000 pixels long. For this reason, I am displaying just a thumbnail of the photo on the right however you can click to vie the whole picture :)

    Overall this looks like a very powerful tool and a step in the correct direction for real-time search for one of the world largest search engines!

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