So it appears that most (if not all) of the trending bots have been
removed from search results as of 2 days ago, nice. I have also
noticed that the referral traffic from my bot links have dropped about
85% in the last two days.
Not complaining; I'm all for this change. Just noticing out loud.
oh noes... now even al3x is a trending bot:
http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1302097888
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:07 PM, TjL wrote:
>
> The more I think about this, the more I realize that there really
> ought to be a "logged in" version of Twitter Search.
>
> Not that you would HAVE to login, but
The more I think about this, the more I realize that there really
ought to be a "logged in" version of Twitter Search.
Not that you would HAVE to login, but IF you were logged in:
People you have BLOCKED would not appear.
People who have private accounts you follow WOULD appear.
That way you c
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
> On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the
> time.
My list is now updating live:
http://www.twurlednews.com/twitter-bots/
Nick
On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the
time.
Paul
2009/3/9 TjL
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser
> wrote:
> >>>
> IMO, "tr
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>>
IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say
what they are going to use their API access for, righ
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>
>>> IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say
>>> what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should
>>> excluded from Twitter search.
>>
>> How do
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>> IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say
>> what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should
>> excluded from Twitter search.
>
> How do you enforce bots registering as bots, however?
Well,
> IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say
> what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should
> excluded from Twitter search.
How do you enforce bots registering as bots, however?
--
personal: http://www.camero
Here's the latest example of bots drowning out actual posts:
http://tntluoma.com/temp/TrendBots.png (screenshot)
Of 11 visible results:
4 are actual content (although 2 are ReTweets, which is another issue
altogether, but at least they are humans)
7 are bots.
Almost 2x as many bots as actual
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
>
> Just make sure not to feed @RobotTweeters to itself... you may rip a
> blackhole in the tweet/space continuum!
I endeavor to never cross the streams.
Nick
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> I created @RoboTweeters this morning. I'll probably start feeding it screen
> names and ids of the ones I find, since that's quite simple.
> Nick
Just make sure not to feed @RobotTweeters to itself... you may rip a
blackhole in the tweet/spac
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> > I agree, most ppl probably won't abide by any guidelines that they
> > have to 'voluntarily' follow in order to identify themselves at bots.
> > It's pretty darn easy to tell if something is a trend bot or not...
> > especially with the
> I agree, most ppl probably won't abide by any guidelines that they
> have to 'voluntarily' follow in order to identify themselves at bots.
> It's pretty darn easy to tell if something is a trend bot or not...
> especially with the username :) Matt even said they've identified
> them (uh oh, i'm
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM, TjL wrote:
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> Specifically
>
> 1) There are WAY to many "trending topic" bots which fill search
> results with useless clutter
>
> 2) I'd love to see a "trending topics" list that does NOT include hash
> tags, you know, to find out what ordinary people are talki
I agree, most ppl probably won't abide by any guidelines that they
have to 'voluntarily' follow in order to identify themselves at bots.
It's pretty darn easy to tell if something is a trend bot or not...
especially with the username :) Matt even said they've identified
them (uh oh, i'm on some k
I am skeptical that bot devs, (outside of the integrious Jazzy Chad), will
do anything to encourage segregation, as it would probably lead to a nuking
list at some point. I would say this has to be done programatically, with a
"secret sauce" that is known to twitter only. As search is more and mor
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Matt Sanford wrote:
> Hi there,
> We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We exclude
> a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then they still get
> displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix that so we can exclude
>
Hi there,
We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We
exclude a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then
they still get displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix
that so we can exclude the trend bots using a parameter or search
operator.
what I think is also important is that the bots are then contributing to the
trending itself, and eliminating other legitimate topics from trends.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM, TjL wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Doug Williams wrote:
> > In your experience, do trending bots have a
Well, it's kind of a weird feedback loop.
Say you are following a trending bot (many many people do, a
surprising number to me). As soon as you see a tweet from your
favorite trending bot, you click the link and head over to see the
results Well, all the other bots are tweeting at about the
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Doug Williams wrote:
> In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate
> participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done
> any analysis like that?
I'm not Chad :-) but if you click on any of the Trending Topics and
watch for an
Chad,
In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate
participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done
any analysis like that?
Doug Williams
@dougw
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Burhan TANWEER wrote:
> I agree with him. Search trends are not available in xm
I agree with him. Search trends are not available in xml format. I will
appreciate, if twitter can provide search trends in xml and so that i can
update my social search engine ExploreWWW.com with search trends in real
time.
Thanks
Burhan
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM, TjL wrote:
>
> Specific
1) I agree, so I wrote a greasemonkey script to zap them from
http://search.twitter.com/ results:
http://jazzychad.com/stuff/?p=37
(disclosure: i also run one of the trending bots... i discuss this in the post)
2) http://twitscoop.com to the rescue! I have been told that they are
hoping to crea
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