----- "Dewald Pretorius" <[email protected]> wrote: > Raffi, > > Tweet id is a no-brainer. We understand that an linear incrementing > number does not scale because at some point it must cycle back to 1. > > Search is a different animal. > > When I do a Twitter search, I expect your system to tell me what is > *happening* right now. I am NOT expecting your system to tell me what > is *popular* right now. > > This popular tweet thing is diluting and violating your entire > mission > of "real-time". > > If I search for "earthquake" I want to see what is *happening* in > real- > time. I have no interest in seeing a 30-minute old tweet from @aplusk > or @ev just because they are trusted accounts and the tweet is being > retweeted a lot (to simplify the popularity algorithm). > > If people have a need to see popular tweets, you know what? That is > an > ideal service to be provided by a third-party developer/service. > > Twitter is real-time, and has defined real-time information. Stick to > it. Don't dilute your mission.
+1000 And can we fix Trending Topics too? Give me the Top 100 or Top 200 or even Top 1000 and let me filter out Tiger Woods, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and the iPad! ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net/smart-at-znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős
