Twitority, an authority-based search engine launched by Jon Wheatley, has evoked mixed reactions. Usage of the word authority is perceived differently by different bloggers.

Twitority was a dramatic response to Loic Le Meur, a blogger who was either mad or bored on a weekend to ask for Twitter search by authority. Twitority allows restricting search to Twitter users with large number of followers.

But many bloggers differed from Meur s view and immediate reactions appeared from Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch and Robert Scoble of Scobleizer. Kincaid posted that the Twitority service was still bare bones and based on user s authority user s with any authority, a little authority and a lot of authority. 

Meur's usage popularity in context of authority was criticized. As per Meur's perception of authority, a Twitter user with a large number of followers has more authority. This might not serve the purpose since, as Kincaid noted, even popular keywords resulted with minimal or no results.

However, Scoble expressed an entirely different opinion about Twitority. He believed that ranking merely on basis of followers was mere idiocy. He says, It is far more important who you follow than who follows you: if you follow people just to get followers you ll end up being overworked, deep in information overload, and superficial to boot.

Point here is: Twitority has twisted a feature expected to be in Twitter Search. We also believe that Twitter Search results should be more relevant to the search query and should ward-off noise/useless updates. Blame it on web search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN who have intoxicated many with accurate results.