Twitter's VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, has come out and said that Twitter will soon start crawling and indexing links included in tweets. That's big.
Take a look at TinyURL's home page - they claim more than 222 million links have been shrunk for Twitter. That's without the host of other services out there like budurl, cli.gs, bit.ly and any number of others. That's an enormous index of content available to be crawled. And it's all been taking place in under three...
May 7 2009, 1:08pm | Original Link »
Your favourite external commenting service goes here! I recommend http://www.disqus.com