Twitter search is irrelevent

so here  is the the second part my personal try t o answer this simple question: is twitter search the new real time search you can count on?

in this second part I will try to make some hypothesis on twitter search results, and how would those result be relevant or irrelevant?

what make a search result relevant or irrelevant? is it users appreciation? or just well trusted efficient automated  based algorithms that guaranty an optimal maintaining of information consistency?

let make it in plain simple words:

1) people trust their classic usual search engine, because they know that they will get the answer to their query in the first 20 results or less.

2) people know that behind the summary of the result they can find more compelling data with a click on the hyper link.

now twitter search have to resolve 2 problem :

1) make the (tweet) result of a query self satisfying, I mean that a tweet have to be so concise so detailed so targeted that it make a further (clicking ) useless. which is  a big challenge (a tweet is  all about 140 car).

2) tweet order and ranking algorithm. let call it (T.R.A) or (S.R.A) for Social Ranking Algorithm.

so this is the challenges.

and even if they do they have to bring a good anti spammer policy, this quote from Trisha Lyn Fawver post  is inspiring.

Of course, for the searches to be relevant you have to participate genuinely.  If Twitter becomes a haven for spammers and marketers just pushing links and deals, then of course the search results you get on Twitter will be clouded.  But I have high hopes that the few of us preaching Twitter clarity will win out and the user base will continue to participate on a human level, making the search results that come from Twitter more rich in content than even a Google search.

 now, time to think about Social Ranking Algorithm. (I will try to post on this notion sooner).