Twitter Unveils A Live-Updating Search Widget
Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. But Twitter has just unveiled a new widget tonight that does just that.
The widget, found here, allows you to enter any search query, along with a title and a caption. The widget will then be built next to the input fields so you can see what it looks like. You can also edit its color and dimensions. If you like it, you simply grab the code and put it on a webpage.
You can even do more advanced searches using parameters like “OR”. In their example widget, Twitter uses the following search string “San Francisco OR @sf OR #sf” to make a live-updating San Francisco Twitter Search widget.
You can also loop old results if you’re doing a search that has a low volume of results, so it doesn’t appear so static.
There are no shortage of third-parties that do widgets like these, but an official Twitter one will no doubt be useful to many people for events or personal use. We made one for TechCrunch, but the code you get doesn’t appear to work too nicely with WordPress, so the picture will have to do for now.
This new feature follows Twitter rolling out its “Twitter 101″ guide for businesses to use the service earlier tonight.
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