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scottkarp: I'm sorry Twitter search is a joke. Can't search further back then a few weeks. It's not just about real-time, it's a permanent record. - http://twitter.com/scottka...

August 19 from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like - Share

Nicholas James, Roberto Bonini, Stanislas Jourdan and 25 other people liked this

could not agree more...why I have never actually used their search. - Braden Douglass

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Twitter needs to technically fix the search instead of decorating it. - ashish from iPhone

Maybe they could acquire a third party search service... - Ken Sheppardson

Maybe they could just start taking this shit seriously? - Andy Bakun

my tweets have disappeared off the public search timeline since the DoS attacks. Twitter's a free service and customer service reflects it... - Sherrie Rose

Twitter has been a joke for two years. Problem is too many people enjoy using it. It's a shame people didn't move away from twitter. Pity for those people. - Richard A.

Totally agreed. I had a personal hash-tag for so many tweets just so that I could maintain some records.All are gone now :( - Sujay

Despite all the problems I do like that I can narrow my search geographically. That is something I wish I could do with FriendFeed. I would also like to search for new friends geographically. - Skyler Call

Question: Why would anybody need to search twitter back more than a couple of weeks? I don't see how Tweets hold any value for that long. Do you save all your SMS Text messages too? - Otto

Otto wins! If it's something worth saving, blog it, or put it somewhere that's yours, not Twitter's, or Tumblr's or anyone else's. Oye... - Mike Lewis

Why are you sorry that a product you're not responsible for is a joke? - Trent Hamm

If Twitter does come up with a good search functionality, then I want the ability to purge my tweets after some period of time. I don't want my messages being permanent records. - Otto

What Twitter did to their search earlier in the Spring was a huge surprise to me as I used it regularly. The changes they made did not raise much of a huff then, so my read was that few people understand and make use of these search capabilities. While the friendfeed search has room for growth which we may not see now with the buyout, it is clearly one of the main reasons I decided to make this my social media home. - Richard Reeve

Once in a while I think to myself how much data does the Internet want to keep, and why does it matter. Wouldn't it be better if there was a national library online that wasn't putting a load on the Internet from keeping so much useless data (which Twitter mostly has, BTW...) - David Libby

My sense is that the dross is an inevitable by product, and what one might consider dross might be valuable to another for very different reasons, some of which we might not even recognize yet. Regardless of the system, I'm for archiving the entire unfolding transcript... - Richard Reeve

Is FF search really much better? Trying to find things older than a few days or weeks is damn near impossible. - Brian Sullivan

Brian, while FF only returns about 630 or items back, once you apply searches by keyword, that is more than enough to get you back all the way to the beginning of your Twitter, etc. record kept within FF. And that is the value, Otto, that before you could use Twitter as a very handy, "self-tagging" (by way of your tweet context) bookmark repository, etc. Sometimes you do want to find out what (specific) people said during a given conference, during a major event, sentiment trends over time, etc. etc. - Alex Schleber

@Otto42, agreed that you should be able to opt out for privacy reasons, then again, you already sort of can by protecting your updates (granted that won't get your old tweets out of Twitter Search & FF, etc. databases). - Alex Schleber

laura "@pistachio" fitton

Almost universally, people planning commercial events/insisting "no budget/we don't pay speakers" are themselves getting paid. Just saying.

August 17 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jeff "RESPRES" Turner, Jeremiah Owyang, phil baumann and 3 other people liked this

I have a huge annoyance with this as well. - Jesse Stay

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Let me just play devil's advocate here as a speaker and as an organizer. How do you code this in your budget. I consider it marketing my business as a consultant. You have to get out and be seen as an expert. I don't expect organizers to pay me to market my own business. - Jim Turner

Jim, I agree with you there, but after you get so many of these, it stops becoming marketing and begins to hurt your overall benefit from the engagement. I'm sure Laura's in that boat. There have been times during the year I have too - some times time can be better spent elsewhere in marketing your business than just speaking for free. I see both points, but I think that's Laura's... more... - Jesse Stay

Jim, there's also the bias side of things. If you're not getting paid to speak, you're more likely to spend your time speaking in promoting your business so you do make the money you need. A paid speaker generally should have no bias. - Jesse Stay

its the jeff pulver model - sean percival

Sean, care to explain? (or have a link?) - Jesse Stay

At the point it begins to hurt, just say "No". It's tough i know. I am still paying a credit card off that I use to pay for tickets and hotels. I sell myself not from the stage but in the hall at at the networking events. Many times it is a loss for me to do this, but overall it is a branding experience as well. You never know when something like this is going to pay off. I had someone... more... - Jim Turner

"Yeah its not actually free, but there are 100 people standing in line to be in your spot." - great point, Jim. - Jesse Stay

This is a great conversation - would love to see Laura in here, too. - Jesse Stay

If there are 100 people who can give an audience what I give them, in the way I give it to them, I shouldn't get paid. - Jeff "RESPRES" Turner

Erin @queenofspain

Of course now I am waiting in the lobby in a hospital gown, striped socks, holding a stuffed kitty looking like a lunatic homeless person

August 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jeff "RESPRES" Turner, MicahBear78, Steve C and 6 other people liked this

You say that like that's not how you spend all your Friday afternoons. - Admiral Anika

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You have striped socks. There are few better omens *sagenod* - Michael W. May

Your fans are screaming out for a Twitpic of that outfit! :) - jcunwired

it is time to run! - MB Linder

i cant get a pic of my whole body...someone come do it for me - Erin @queenofspain

Lunatic homeless people in striped socks are very much in vogue these days. - shelisrael1

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