it was stated fairly clearly and plainly by @dickc at @chirp that promoted tweets would be iterated upon inside the web view first. there is going to be a second and third "phase" of the program -- one of which involves "syndication" (i.e. have promoted tweets appear in the API).
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:09 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/18/2010 10:57 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > >>> 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. > > > > What he said. > > > Although ... in playing around with searches for Starbucks, it looks > like "promotion" is being done only in one specific case: I am logged in > to Twitter.com and do a search for some specific things in the search > box on the right of the page. I haven't gotten a Promoted Tweet from the > search on the main Twitter page when I'm logged out or from > search.twitter.com, even though I am using the same query. > > So I'm guessing the only way to "see" a Promoted Tweet from the API at > the moment would be: > > 1. Find a search that gives you a Promoted Tweet. > 2. Save it. > 3. Re-activate the saved search from the API. > > Anyone from Twitter want to comment? It's starting to look to me like > Promoted Tweets is being done outside the API for now. > > Given what I know about on line marketing and analytics, I'm not > entirely convinced it's in Twitter's interest to answer my questions > here. But I can ask. ;-) > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul > Erdős > > > -- > Subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
