Twitter Opens Entire Multibillion-Tweet Gold Mine to SearchersTwitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006. "Our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every tweet ever published," said Yi Zhuang, who led the project team. Use cases Zhuang cited for the new infrastructure include results for entire TV and sports seasons, conferences, industry discussions and long-lived hashtag conversations.
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Twitter Opens Entire Multibillion-Tweet Gold Mine to Searchers