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 point for number of times the tweet has been retweeted. Is that as in hitting the "Retweet" button only, or will copying and pasting, editing and adding value also count? If I retweet you, and 3 of my followers retweet that, with the retweet button I get no credit and don't even know it has happened unless I go into the website. Having a retweets field which only counts the RT button will further entrench this feature which is very damaging to the sense of community and way a lot of people use twitter (certainly over here). Sorry for the rant. Nigel.
On 2 April 2010 02:03, @dbbradle <dbradl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Taylor and Twitter API team! I know what I'm doing this > weekend :) > > On Apr 1, 5:53 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > 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 servers. Thank you all for your feedback. > > > > *Key API Takeaways*: > > > > - During the current phase, receiving "popular tweets" in your API > search > > results is *OPT-IN*. You will not see the new top results in search > unless > > you specify the *result_typ**e* parameter on your search query string. > > > > - The result_type parameter takes one of three values: > > * *mixed* - receive both "popular tweets" and most recent tweets for > the > > query. This is the equivalent of the future default behavior. > > * *popular* - receive only "popular tweets" for the query. > > * *recent* - receive only recent results for the query. This is the > > equivalent of the behavior you've come to expect until present > > > > - Each tweet in a search result will now contain a metadata node, with > a > > field called 'result_type' that indicates whether the tweet is "popular" > or > > "recent". In the future, there may be other result_types. The metadata > node > > will eventually contain other fields as well. > > > > - In addition to result_type, the metadata node may also include a > > 'recent_retweets' field indicating the number of retweets the tweet has > > received recently, rounded to a reasonable integer. > > > > - This metadata field will now appear in search results regardless of > your > > OPT-IN status on the popular tweets feature. You don't have to do > anything > > to receive this new metadata along with tweets in search results. In > JSON, > > the metadata field is simply "metadata." In XML, you'll see it expressed > as > > "<twitter:metadata>". > > > > *Continued Discussion*: > > > > To date, Twitter's real-time search has proven to be incredibly valuable. > > People, businesses and organizations have come to depend on finding out > > what's being discussed about a particular topic *right now*. > > > > We've been really impressed at the integrations many of you have > developed > > using the Search API. Whether it's offering search columns in a Twitter > > client, mapping #hashtags to search, or deep analysis of trends and brand > > monitoring, you've shown us what's possible with Twitter search. > > > > With this new project, we want to make real-time search even more > valuable > > by surfacing the best tweets about a particular topic, by considering > > recency, but also the interactions on a tweet. This means analyzing the > > author's profile, as well as the number times the tweet has been > retweeted, > > favorited, replied, and more. It's an evolving algorithm that we'll be > > iterating on & tuning until practically the end of time. > > > > With this initial release, if we detect that there are particularly > > interesting & relevant tweets for a given query, we'll display at most 3 > of > > these tweets at the top of the page. We'll also display the number of > times > > these tweets have been recently retweeted as well. > > > > You can check outhttp://search.twitter.comto see our new beta relevancy > > results now. Using the new features of the API we're launching today, you > > could build a similar interface for the popular results but we're > expecting > > awesome & creative uses of these new result types, not necessarily > limited > > to user-facing features. > > > > Explore the new result formats and options in the updated Search API > > documentation: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-searchand our > > original post on the subject: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr... > > > > Happy Hacking! > > > > Taylor Singletary > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
