kara.allthingsd.com - 12/29/2008
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BoomTown’s been just one week gone and yet another goofy, traffic-generating debate “erupts” in the blogosphere, involving the usual suspects.
(Hey, it’s Loïc Le Meur and Michael Arrington again , fresh from their equally meaningful Are-French-folks-lazy-or-what? ...
loiclemeur.com - 12/27/2008
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loiclemeur.com —
200812262224.jpg There were more than 7000 tweets posted
during the two days of LeWeb, no way anyone...
can read them quickly. We need filtering and search by authority. We're not equal on Twitter, as we're not equal on blogs and on the web. I am not ...
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Loic Le Meur Blog: Twitter: We Need Search By Authority
techcrunch.com - 12/28/2008
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techcrunch.com —
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. For the record, I agree with ...
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Bloggers Lose The Plot Over Twitter Search
techcrunch.com - 12/27/2008
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techcrunch.com —
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 ...
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Should Twitter Add Authority-based Search?
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It’s Not How Many Followers You Have That Counts, It’s How Many Times You Get Retweeted
TechCrunch —
... anyway. While others didn’t understand what the big deal was in the first place because their relatives in Scranton have never heard of Twitter (sigh). ...
The “back to reality” CES and MacWorld
Scobleizer —
... 2009 is the year of reality. It’s the year when hype goes away (except for hype about Twitter). When many of us get back to the basics: health, happiness, fitness, family. ...
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