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Should Twitter Add Authority-based Search?
TechCrunch —
Loic Le Meur is asking Twitter to add an authority filter to their search (he also goes on a rant about Sprint, but ignore that). He wants to sort through Twitter messages based on how many followers the person writing has, so he’ll know the relative importance of what’s being said.
The way he argues isn’t pretty (“We’re not equal on Twitter, as we’re not equal on blogs and on the web”) but what he says has merit. The number of followers a Twitter user has is effectively a volume button - the more ...
Echo Chamber Fail for Twitter With Authority-Based Search: Let Them Eat Cake!
SmoothSpan Blog —
... Loic LeMeur wants authority-based search for Twitter where your number of followers will skew the results. Michael Arrington agrees.
And why not? Arrington has 36,000 plus followers and LeMeur has 15,000. There tweets will zoom right to the top of most searches. What about the rest of the Twitterverse? Hey, Loic’s French, he understands the phrase, “let them eat cake.”
This is a seriously good way to make Twitter search Fail big time. No better way to amplify the Echo Chamber. Is that all Twitter is? The Follower haves ...
Scobleizer — ... Bob Warfield has it all right: Loic Le Meur’s call for authority-based Twitter searches is all wrong. What is Loic’s idea? To let you do Twitter searches with results ranked according to number of followers. You’d think I’d be all over that idea, right? After all I have a lot more followers than Loic or Arrington has. But you’d be wrong. Ranking by # of followers is a stupid idea. Dave Winer agrees. Here’s why it’s a stupid idea: everyone is gaming the number of followers. And, even if ...
Twitter Search Needs More Advanced Queries
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere —
... on Techmeme right now started here by Loic Le Meur about using Twitter authority as a way to reduce the number of results in a Twitter search. Since it has been suggested it will likely soon be created by someone using the Twitter API if it hasn't already been created. Technorati uses authority on its ...
Bloggers Lose The Plot Over Twitter Search
TechCrunch —
... Wow. Loic Le Meur asks for a simple feature on Twitter search - the ability to filter results by the number of followers that a user has to make sense of thousands of messages - and the blogosphere calls for his head. ...
Arrington? Loic? Scoble? Everybody's Right About "Authority".
louisgray.com —
... Recently Loic Le Meur wrote a post, suggesting that Twitter Search sort their results by most popular on Twitter. So, for example, if Robert Scoble has more followers than Michael Arrington, Scoble's posts will appear higher than Arrington's in the search results. Scoble responded with a blog post suggesting Lemeur was wrong, saying that the number of people you follow is more important than those who follow you. Today, Arrington reignited the flames with another follow-on post, supporting Le Meur, effectively saying the ...
Thanks Mike Arrington for taking us off the rails into Twitter idiot land
Scobleizer —
... Now, to be fair, the post that started this mess, from Loic Le Meur, had a good goal: to make it possible to find better tweets in searches. In other words, to separate the news from the noise. Except Loic used the word “authority” and hooked it to popularity: the number of followers one has. ...
Attention + Influence do not equal Authority
BuzzMachine —
... The problem Naughton sees is the same one that plagues analysis of online discussion using media metrics. In mass media, of course, big was better because you had to be big to own the press: Mass mattered. We still measure and value things online according to that scale, even though it is mostly outmoded. Indeed, we now complain about things getting too big - when, as Clay Shirky says, what we’re really complaining about is filter failure. That is why Loic Le Meur suggested filtering Twitterers by their followers; he’s seeking a filter. ...
10000 followers won’t get you a free latte
LIVEdigitally —
... this weekend as they debated the merits of a Twitter feature that would allow one to sort search results in the order of users who have the most followers. The debate wasn’t really about the feature itself, which is completely innocuous conceptually (Twitter search should allow tons of different sorts). The debate was about Loic Lemeur (the original poster) using the term “authority” to define his request. ...
Ask And Ye Shall Receive: Twitority Launches Authority-Based Twitter Search
TechCrunch —
... Yesterday Loic Le Meur wrote a blog post asking for an authority-based Twitter search that would allow users to restrict their searches to Twitter users with a large number of followers. A number of bloggers were ...
Twitority refines Twitter search. Or kills it
Webware.com —
... Twitority, the new alternative to Twitter's own search engine, is a brilliant idea. Or an incredibly stupid one. It depends on what you are looking for.
Over the weekend after Christmas, Seemic CEO Loic Le Meur put up a blog post saying Twitter's search engine is insufficiently discriminating. If you're looking for the best Twitter posts on a topic, he says, you want results from the most authoritative people to be ranked higher than Tweets from the rabble. Le Meur proposed a search engine that ranked Twitter posts based in part on the number of ...
ReTweet This: Who Cares?
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... stuff on the web, new websites, new software, new gadgets, new uses for old stuff, old uses for new stuff, etc, etc. I’m not the biggest social networking fan, but I’ve tried Second Life, I have a MySpace page, LinkedIn profile, some tumblr blogs, wordpress blogs, and some twitter accounts, but, I really don’t get all the excitement over twitter, if you read techmeme there’s some new posts about twitter everyday, how can twitter make money, we need a better twitter search , we need search by authority , we need search by retweet , how far does a retweet ...
Twithority Turns Twitter Into A Real News Stream
AppScout —
... Twithority looks at the firehouse of Twitter traffic and parses it for content and authority. Maybe all men are created equal, but we're not equal on-the-net. Those are the sentiments of Loïc Le Meur who blogged about a solution to the Twitter noise problem last month. ...
@Google - @Twitter To Start Indexing Links For Search
TechCrunch —
Twitter: We’re Not for Sale
Macworld —
by Ian Paul , PC World The following article is reprinted from the Today@PC World blog at PCWorld.com . Forget all those rumors about Apple , Google , Microsoft or anyone else buying Twitter : The company’s bosses say Twitter is not for sale. On Wednesday, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams were on ABC's The View as part of Twitter’s current media campaign that has also included appearances on Oprah and The Colbert Report . Responding to a question from Barbara Walters about the rumors surrounding an imminent purchase of Twitter by a larger tech company, Stone ...
