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getting to the point of twitter trends http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/get-to-point-twitter-trends.html 33 hours ago |
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Get to the Point: Twitter Trends - http://bit.ly/366tYc 2 days ago |
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Trends are most valuable when they are most relevant, I hope one day for trends that are country specific @jennadawn http://bit.ly/gcM0Q 4 days ago |
Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets
TechCrunch —
... In a post on its blog, Twitter notes that the “noisiness of the conversation” has led Trends to be less interesting. So beginning today they’re going to be experimenting with ways to surface more relevant tweets in this area. While they don’t come out and say it, the implication here seems pretty clear: They’ll be in some way curating the topics and the tweets. It’s not clear if this will be algorithmic or manual yet. ...
Twitter Cleaning Up Trending Topics Spam
Mashable! —
... Twitter knows this is a problem though and has now publicly acknowledged that they’re working on a solution. In an announcement today, the microblogging startup has revealed that they are experimenting with new ways to show higher-quality tweets within Twitter trends. ...
It's About Time: Twitter Aims to Fix Trending Topics
ReadWriteWeb —
... Twitter rep @jennadawn (no real name given, and no link from her Twitter profile, either) wrote on the official Twitter blog, "We've noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics. Trends began as a useful way to find out what's going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation. ...
Twitter Rolling Out Retweets, Rolling Over Trends Spam
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... PS. If you’re not seeing the retweet option, Twitter has a consolation prize for you. It’s cleaning up the spam in trending topics. ...
Linkpost | 11.6.2009
TechBlog —
... - Twitter has begun to integrate retweets into its Web pages. This is the first official Twitter implementation of retweets, a feature originally pioneered by users themselves. • Get to the Point: Twitter Trends - Twitter apparently will be manipulating updates in trending topics. Did they do so for Thursday's Fort Hood shootings? • ...
Twitter Begins Rolling Out its Own Retweet Feature
WebProNews Feed —
... In another piece of Twitter-related news, the company also announced that it is experimenting with improvements to trends that will help users find more relevant tweets. They say they're working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. ...
Twitter to Vet Trending Topics
AppScout —
... The folks at Twitter today posted up a characteristically short piece about the company's plans to filter the site's Trending Topics. "We've noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics," the company wore in a post on its official blog. "Trends began as a useful way to find out what's going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation." ...
Twitter Announces Changes in the Works for Retweets, Trending Topics
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... "As Twitter grows and the number of tweets each day continues to astound us, we’ve noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics," Twitter noted. "Trends began as a useful way to find out what’s going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation." ...
Twitter Implementing Retweets On A Small Scale
WebProNews Feed —
... PS. If you’re not seeing the retweet option, Twitter has a consolation prize for you. It’s cleaning up the spam in trending topics. ...
Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine
paidContent —
Twitter plans to cut the noise out of trending topics ... but how?
Download Squad —
Filed under: Social Software, MicrobloggingHave you ever actually clicked on any of Twitter's trending topics? I don't want to sound like the old guy telling whippersnappers to get off his lawn, but trying to read almost any Twitter trend gives me a headache. There's so much spam with popular hashtags attached that even people who care about the trends aren't getting a great user experience. Twitter realizes this, and they're going to do something to cut down the noise. The precise something that Twitter intends to do isn't really ...
Twitter to show ‘quality Trends tweets’ getting off with spammy tweets
D' Technology Weblog —
... As Twitter grows and so the number of tweets each day continues to astound, “Trends began as a useful way to find out interesting topics, but due to an increasing amount of clutter in public timeline, especially with trending topics, Trends has become less interesting. In order to get rid off spam, to help you find more relevant tweets, Twitter is working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that’re more useful. The improvement won't be very noticeable at first, but this’s a small step toward ...
Did Twitter Pluck a Data Management Guru from Yahoo!?
louisgray.com —
... is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what look to have been its rockiest struggles over the last twelve months, Twitter is now getting to focus on rolling out some significant new features, from Lists to geolocation, trend definitions and ...
Twitter Plucks Data Management Guru from Yahoo!
louisgray.com —
... is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what looks to have been its rockiest struggles over the last twelve months, Twitter is now getting to focus on rolling out some significant new features, from Lists to geolocation, trend definitions and ...
Twitter Puts Retweet Roll-Out on Hold
WebProNews Feed —
... In another piece of Twitter-related news, the company also announced that it is experimenting with improvements to trends that will help users find more relevant tweets. They say they're working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. ...
