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For any service where you are taking time to enter data, links, conversations, and photos, search is very important. For a real-time service that lets you update in seconds, things get lost and forgotten. Search fixes that. Twitter searchis extremely limited in that it only shows a few days worth of tweets. A search for “Guitar Hero” yielded tweets back to September 16th only. That’s 7 days as of the writing of this post....

Twitter has begun a new campaign to direct its users towards its mobile applications, creating a new page that shows how you can “take Twitter with you” by downloading the official Twitter apps, displayed when a user logs out of the main website. When signing out, you are now met with astylish download pagewhich asks if the user owns an iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7 device, also highlighting the fact that Twitter allows updates to be delivered by SMS using any mobile device....

WithTwitteralready having been translated into 7 languates officially, the company is looking to extend its reach. As CEODick Costoloannounced from The MWC keynote today, Twitter’s goal is to be available on every platform. In order to reach that goal, the company needs translation into even more languages. According to a post onthe Twitter blog, theTwitter Translation Centershould help accomplish that feat. We currently offer Twitter in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish....

Reports aroundTwitterare telling us that some people are starting to see a new homepage on Twitter.com. In fact, we’ve now seen a screenshot of it ourselves, so here you go. Before: After: The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now! The new layout appears to follow exactly the same thought as what Twitter did with itsnew suggestionsof who to follow....

The updates just keep coming. Along with the slew of apps beingupdatedfor the coming iOS 5 upgrade comes Twitter’s improved iOS app. Version 3.5.0 claims to have an enhanced sign up experience, full integration of Twitter’s picture service (pic.twitter.com), as well as an updated Direct Message design for iPad which sorts DMs in chronological order as well as by thread. You can now also tap locations via iPad, a feature that will show tweets from nearby — that is, assuming users have enabled location sharing via tweets....