Hi there,
We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We
exclude a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then
they still get displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix
that so we can exclude the trend bots using a parameter or search
operator.
As far as if this is the correct place for search or not, I think
it is. If other Twitter API developers disagree please let me know and
I'll start a second group. From my perspective keeping up with one is
easier for me to manage … and we're planning to merge the APIs in the
next version of the API.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford
On Mar 6, 2009, at 08:25 AM, TjL wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Doug Williams <do...@igudo.com>
wrote:
In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate
participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you
done
any analysis like that?
I'm not Chad :-) but if you click on any of the Trending Topics and
watch for any length of time you'll see scads of trending topic bots
popping up.
I think the most I counted at one point was like 12 out of the top
20 results.
It's insane.
TjL
