Facebook And Twitter Suck When It Comes To Searching Their Own Sites

(This was left as a comment to a blog post by Mashable's Adam Ostrow.)

What I want to be able to search on Facebook is all the updates on my wall, and my friends' walls. An update is the Facebook equivalent of the tweet. The update is the building block. Each update has its unique URL as it should. Why can't I look up individual updates, however far back in time?

That is the same gripe I have with Twitter. Why can't I locate all my past tweets? Let alone that of everyone else. They misunderstand real time. Real time is not just now. Real time also is real time as it happened two years ago. All tweets old and new are relevant.

Both Facebook and Twitter have been trying my patience on this one.

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