[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread @giromide
Yes. I imagine Twitter would rather not be forced to do the legwork on offering explanations for trends. On Nov 10, 7:34 am, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > by trend explanations, do you meanhttp://whatthetrend.com/? > > > > > > > Have you considered embedding some "explanation" field for each trend >

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread Raffi Krikorian
by trend explanations, do you mean http://whatthetrend.com/? Have you considered embedding some "explanation" field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. We've hear

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread @giromide
Have you considered embedding some "explanation" field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. On Nov 9, 4:13 pm, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > We've heard from lots of users

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread bob.hitching
hi raffi, this is great. +1 on being about to query trends by lat, lng, radius (or using a bounding box spatial query) this might help what i am doing with GeoMeme - http://www.geome.me which currently uses the Yahoo Term Extraction API to work out trending topics at *any* lat / lng position. ke

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-09 Thread Amitab
Hi Raffi, Very interesting and useful since Twitter has so much data. Could you elaborate more on how you identify that a tweet is of a particular location. From the data twitter collects, there are three main sources that come to mind: 1) Location in the profile of the user. 2) Geo tagged twee

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi naveen. that's actually a _really_ interesting idea! we'll take it under advisement. Looks very interesting. Something that pops to mind right away is maybe on the trends/ available accept a latitude and longitude to sort available trends by distance from a specific location (useful fo

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-09 Thread Naveen
Looks very interesting. Something that pops to mind right away is maybe on the trends/ available accept a latitude and longitude to sort available trends by distance from a specific location (useful for mobile tweeters). It is unclear how many "locations" you plan to support but if the number is