Twitter incorporates search in home page

As predicted by The Next Web, yesterday Twitter announced that they were testing a new home page interface that incorporates the popular and extremely useful Twitter search in the top right hand corner of the screen.

The new interface is being tested on a random number of accounts before they roll it out to the rest of us. Or, in Twitter’s words ‘once a bunch of us have kicked the tires a bit’.

Not only does the new search box incorporate into your home page, it also features a trending drop down that shows you the hot trends people are talking about.

Twitter search has been such an important and useful feature of the site for so long and I’m surprised it’s taken so long for Twitter to incorporate it in the home page. When ever you want to know what is being said about someone or something on Twitter, search is a fantastic tool to get an instant insight. It is also a great way to find new people to follow.

Despite how useful Twitter search is, there are a multitude of other tools that fill in the gaps where Twitter Search falls down. TweetVolume is a fantastically simple tool that allows you to compare the amount of mentions of any term in Twitter. Twist gives you a line graph showing the amount of mentions of a term over time and Monitter allows you to compare mentions of a particular term in real time.

And because we’re all narcissists in social media, TweetStats and Twitter Grader are wonderful ways to reassure us that being number 37,334 out of 1,323,857 on Twitter actually means something.