Thanks, Taylor and Twitter API team! I know what I'm doing this weekend :) On Apr 1, 5:53 pm, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > As indicated a few weeks ago, we're launching our new *beta* enhancements to > search.twitter.com and the Search API today -- it's currently rolling out to > our servers. Thank you all for your feedback. > > *Key API Takeaways*: > > - During the current phase, receiving "popular tweets" in your API search > results is *OPT-IN*. You will not see the new top results in search unless > you specify the *result_typ**e* parameter on your search query string. > > - The result_type parameter takes one of three values: > * *mixed* - receive both "popular tweets" and most recent tweets for the > query. This is the equivalent of the future default behavior. > * *popular* - receive only "popular tweets" for the query. > * *recent* - receive only recent results for the query. This is the > equivalent of the behavior you've come to expect until present > > - Each tweet in a search result will now contain a metadata node, with a > field called 'result_type' that indicates whether the tweet is "popular" or > "recent". In the future, there may be other result_types. The metadata node > will eventually contain other fields as well. > > - In addition to result_type, the metadata node may also include a > 'recent_retweets' field indicating the number of retweets the tweet has > received recently, rounded to a reasonable integer. > > - This metadata field will now appear in search results regardless of your > OPT-IN status on the popular tweets feature. You don't have to do anything > to receive this new metadata along with tweets in search results. In JSON, > the metadata field is simply "metadata." In XML, you'll see it expressed as > "<twitter:metadata>". > > *Continued Discussion*: > > To date, Twitter's real-time search has proven to be incredibly valuable. > People, businesses and organizations have come to depend on finding out > what's being discussed about a particular topic *right now*. > > We've been really impressed at the integrations many of you have developed > using the Search API. Whether it's offering search columns in a Twitter > client, mapping #hashtags to search, or deep analysis of trends and brand > monitoring, you've shown us what's possible with Twitter search. > > With this new project, we want to make real-time search even more valuable > by surfacing the best tweets about a particular topic, by considering > recency, but also the interactions on a tweet. This means analyzing the > author's profile, as well as the number times the tweet has been retweeted, > favorited, replied, and more. It's an evolving algorithm that we'll be > iterating on & tuning until practically the end of time. > > With this initial release, if we detect that there are particularly > interesting & relevant tweets for a given query, we'll display at most 3 of > these tweets at the top of the page. We'll also display the number of times > these tweets have been recently retweeted as well. > > You can check outhttp://search.twitter.comto see our new beta relevancy > results now. Using the new features of the API we're launching today, you > could build a similar interface for the popular results but we're expecting > awesome & creative uses of these new result types, not necessarily limited > to user-facing features. > > Explore the new result formats and options in the updated Search API > documentation:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-searchand > our > original post on the > subject:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr... > > Happy Hacking! > > Taylor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod
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