Twitter has quietly changed how its search works

Author: Ariel Bogle / Source: Mashable

Twitter no longer wants to show you just what’s new in its search results, it wants to show you who tweeted it best.

The platform has moved further away from reverse chronological order in search to relevance order. Now when you look for something using Twitter’s search bar, you’ll be shown relevance-ordered tweets from across Twitter first on the results page.

The change occurred in September, according to a Twitter spokesperson, but was announced publicly Monday.

If you still want to see the most recent live tweets, the “latest” filter is still there, as well as “news,” “photos” and “videos.”

While alterations to the Twitter timeline algorithm caused the internet to briefly lose its mind in early 2016, changes to search are unlikely to cause much of a stir.

However, both tweaks show the social media company’s obsession with the difficult concept of “relevance.”

Announced in February, Twitter’s opt-in timeline changes prioritised what it assessed to be “the best tweets” in a user’s timeline, rather than simply showing them the most recent tweets from…

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