Comments on: Popular Title Topics

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:25:44 +0000

@FFVIIKnight indeed 1 or 2 bumps is enough. Also, this is overall, but we will be moving the cron scraper to get rolling periods as well such as week and day, which are probably more interesting/important/relevant. ^^ Naturally, not going to show all of them on the stream home page, probably week or last 1000 updates, etc.

By: FFVIIKnight

FFVIIKnight — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:10:23 +0000

I spy my tiny contribution with Voices of a Distant Star

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:54:38 +0000

INDEKUSU!

It’s true that messages are indistinguishable from the external view, and they don’t contain meta outside (they really do, but it’s limited to reply_to and in_reply_to_status and source [web/txt/etc]), but the grander issue is that this is computationally taxing when they deal with a block of text rather that some int IDs.

And yea, every update is equally unorganized, or jammed with some form of non-standard meta abbreviation for a context-target. It goes beyond media-title stuff if I bring up dynamic-topics. Eh… twi~

By: natsuneko

natsuneko — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:54:51 +0000

Also, about the why question, I suppose because of the sheer volume of information that’s incoming; there are so many different topics from even more different directions and influences incoming that it’s hard to automatically filter out those categories and display a cloud containing each user’s preferred tags…
If now they were to show some kind of cloud, I suppose most would reflect politics and contemporary stuff.

tl;dr twitter doesn’t have categories, context, etc - every update is equal.

By: natsuneko

natsuneko — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:28:20 +0000

Mwahaha you can notice in that small cloud what I’ve been ~~spamming about~~ watching the whole last week. >:3