i'm fairly positive we'll be doing that - just like how you can see in the web UI right now a clear marking that the tweet has been promoted.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/18/2010 05:53 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > >> > >> Do you know if those of us making small uses of the API (for example, > >> most of our site runs off of the API, but we aren't an application in > >> the sense that we perform actions on behalf of users via the API) have > >> to register at dev. to be able to avoid being automatically opted in > >> at some point? > >> > >> Also, do you know how much agency we have in where promoted tweets > >> appear? (Is placement determined automatically by keywords in the > >> tweets, or are we allowed to pick? Likewise, are we penalized (as per > >> AdWords) for electing to appear for a search or keyword if an > >> algorithm can't see it's relevance, or will the up/down system be > >> entirely based on how users respond to what we've elected to promote?) > >> > > > > its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the > promoted > > tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before > we > > get to the syndication phase of the program. > > > > All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the > ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come > out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming. > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul > Erdős > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
