Google's First Real Threat? Twitter.

Re:Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. by alex_c on Friday February 13, 2009 @01:53PM (#480203)

Sure. Just wait until Twitter becomes worth gaming, and see if its "Human Powered Search" is still good for anything. If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter to research products, it'll be overrun with spam, and it will be much harder to combat than for Google.

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Re:Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. by calambrac on Friday February 13, 2009 @02:06PM (#480232)

One way to mitigate this would be to allow users to limit search to who they following, or some circle around them.

This might even be the basis of a business model, if Twitter gets its micropayments story worked out: let folks who are good at finding good content charge other users to follow them (something small, 10c a month or whatever). People might pay if they felt like they were avoiding spam and getting good, searchable content.

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Re:Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. by trezor on Friday February 13, 2009 @08:55PM (#480748)

* If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter ... it'll be overrun with spam*

Too late. Whenever I've mentioned a single, specific technology product or stack, it has taken less than 3 hours until some totally random stranger with nothing but "related" spam updates adds me, obviously expecting me to instinctively add them back, like I'm some kind of follower-count whore.

Twitter is being heavily spammed and gamed already.

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