The goal is to make Twitter Search a much more complete index of what's happening in real time on the Web and make it an even more credible competitor to Google Search for people looking for very timely content, according to Rafe Needleman of CNET Webware.
According to Needleman, who was moderating a panel at the time, Jayaram told the audience and later confirmed that Twitter Search will also soon get a "reputation" ranking system. When you do a search on a "trending" topic--a topic that is so big it gets its own link in the Twitter.com sidebar--Twitter will take into account the reputation of the person who wrote each tweet and rank the search results in part based on that.
This is a potentially game changing upgrade to Twitter search. The major drawback to social bookmarking is its vulnerability to manipulation, something marketers are catching on to and treating tagging like another form of SEO. A Twitter-based reputation ranking system, depending on how it's executed, could lend great credibility to the indexed sites and articles. I'm more likely to pay attention to an article, blog, new app or event about social media that, say, Tim O'Reilly tweets about than I am content that anonymous Diggers have tagged.
Thoughts? Do Digg, Stumbleupon, reddit, etc. have reason to worry?
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