I follow Dan Luu and he often writes very well, but my perspective as a user is that search is rubbish. I know they're solving a complex problem and indexing is x seconds but I genuinely just use Google with Twitter added as a keyword.
For my own tweets and those of my closest friends, I have them all posted to a group Slack we have and I just use Slack search. It's absurd but instantaneous results.
Ultimately, I'm sure they did lots of kernel hacking and ingestion and ETL stuff but Slack search of Twitter mirror is better than Twitter search for my follow list.
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I follow Dan Luu and he often writes very well, but my perspective as a user is that search is rubbish. I know they're solving a complex problem and indexing is x seconds but I genuinely just use Google with Twitter added as a keyword.
For my own tweets and those of my closest friends, I have them all posted to a group Slack we have and I just use Slack search. It's absurd but instantaneous results.
Ultimately, I'm sure they did lots of kernel hacking and ingestion and ETL stuff but Slack search of Twitter mirror is better than Twitter search for my follow list.