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 <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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 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. > > > hope that helps. > > >> 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). >> > > i'm pretty sure its native RTs only, right now. > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi >
