> > It seems grouping and counting, then ranking the topics returned by > Daily and Weekly trend API does not give the correct top topics shown > in home page of twitter.com. Can anyone tell me how the "Popular > topics today" and "Popular topics this week" works in http://twitter.com/? > i.e. after parsing http://search.twitter.com/trends/daily.json, topics > are simply counted and ranked. however, the result is about less than > 50% accurate to what is displayed in the home page. Anyone knows the > actual algorithm used in the site? >
the front page is a curated version. > I just noticed yesterday that Today and Weekly list no longer have > hashtag topics? Am I correct on this observation. yup - the today and weekly list, on the front page, has had hashtags stripped out. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
