The interesting thing I'm finding is that if I try to do anything that
elevates "popular" or "relevant" tweets, it causes the results to appear
less dynamic, more static, less lively, more dead. And that's bad for the
user experience.
Allan Hoving
http://www.thefrequency.tv
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at
I'd have to say that everyone from Twitter who posts on this list is very
much a "Developer Advocate" and brings the concerns and viewpoints of the
developer community as a whole into every meeting and decision. If there's
ever an internal tension between a competing priority and the developer
ecos
>
> Hence, a developer advocate speaks, pleads, or argues in favor of
> developers, particularly when their needs, wishes, desires, or
> interests diverge from the needs, wishes, desires, or interests of
> Twitter.
(which taylor does, btw)
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Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter
Jaanus,
Nobody intended to be mean, and nobody put into question whether
everyone at Twitter is doing a good job.
As Andrew noted, it's just that the job of Developer Advocate is not
being done at all. I see no malice in that. I believe it is just a
misunderstanding or a lack of understanding of
My oh my, what discussion about advocacy and what not. I think Taylor,
Raffi and everybody else from Twitter are doing a great job here and
everyone is eager to learn and they know they have ways to go. Let's
not get mean.
I'm with those who say injecting popular searches into the search API
resul
On 04/02/2010 10:05 AM, Nigel Legg wrote:
> > Thanks Raffi, I won't go near those retweet functions.
> > As for the popularity stuff, will the algorithm you use be open? It
> > wouldn't be good for either side if someone else developed a popularity
> > index which showed different results from you
i don't see any reason we wouldn't necessarily publicise it, but, honestly,
at this point, i think we're changing it daily.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nigel Legg wrote:
> Thanks Raffi, I won't go near those retweet functions.
> As for the popularity stuff, will the algorithm you use be ope
Thanks Raffi, I won't go near those retweet functions.
As for the popularity stuff, will the algorithm you use be open? It
wouldn't be good for either side if someone else developed a popularity
index which showed different results from yours.
On 2 April 2010 18:00, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
> Tay
>
> Taylor, I have two questions; I thought you answered them in the original
> thread, but could not find them.
> 1. How are "popular" tweets defined? Tweets from accounts with lots of
> followers, or tweets that have been retweeted the most, or what?
>
from taylor's e-mail:
With this new proj
Taylor, I have two questions; I thought you answered them in the original
thread, but could not find them.
1. How are "popular" tweets defined? Tweets from accounts with lots of
followers, or tweets that have been retweeted the most, or what?
2. And that leads to : you mention having a metadata po
Thanks, Taylor and Twitter API team! I know what I'm doing this
weekend :)
On Apr 1, 5:53 pm, Taylor Singletary
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> As indicated a few weeks ago, we're launching our new *beta* enhancements to
> search.twitter.com and the Search API today -- it's currently rolling out to
> our
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