1173086 - Remove Twitter search altogether

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Not a single user wanted it, and it scared people away from using search altogether.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Richard Newman [:rnewman] from comment #0)
> Not a single user wanted it, and it scared people away from using search
> altogether.

Context. Who? Does this need to track v1?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Need a decision from Karen

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Looking at some Android search count data, Twitter is still relevant. I'm going to see about getting some more current data (this is Q3 / Q4 2014 numbers) but I don't believe the problem is that Twitter is there - because when people understand what it does, they use it (and use it more often than some other search providers we have included!). The trick is to educate users what it is, which I believe is being addressed in another bug.

tl:dr  don't pull it at this point. Being able to promote alternative choices is our strength.