Twitter Top Tweet Search Results Now Displayed By Relevance Instead of Chronologically
Twitter quietly tweaked its top tweet search results to display in order of relevance, rather than in reverse chronological order.
Twitter quietly tweaked its top tweet search results to display in order of relevance, rather than in reverse chronological order.
Senior software engineer, search quality Lisa Huang announced the change in a blog post, saying that users who were part of its test group engaged more with search results and spent more time on the social network.
She shared the image below, in which results of a search for #MrRobot are displayed chronologically on the left and by relevance on the right:
Huang explained the reasons for the change:
Twitter is live and real-time, so naturally, Twitter search must surface recent, yet still relevant, results.
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