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As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other unde
by dansingerman 16y ago
As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other undesirable terms.
Which seems a bit underhand by Twitter.
Edit: I notice that 'Facebook isnt working' has appeared now. I've blogged about this issue here: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-a-force-for-good http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-... (if anyone cares)
- bl4k 16y agoduring one of the twitter hacks the blacklist application was accessed and facebook was on the list (as was google and a bunch of other brand names)
- rryyan 16y agoI'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?
- bl4k 16y agoI took a screenshot on my other machine - I will upload it when I am on there next There were hundreds of items on the list (Edit: here is this link for now: http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-twitter-dont-use-password-as-your-password/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-tw... I am sure that I saved the entire page of blacklisted words)
- sssparkkk 16y agoThat screenshot shows which of the current (more or less I guess) topics need to be blacklisted. Not which words are always blacklisted.
- Astro9k 16y agoWow. So twitter censors disparaging comments about companies? Wow.
- seldo 16y agoMore likely that terms that are continuously mentioned in huge numbers (and therefore don't count as "trending") are omitted.
- _delirium 16y agoThere are more principled ways to do that than a blacklist, though, like looking at current frequency compared to typical frequency. That way even something commonly mentioned could still genuinely be trending if it gets mentioned much more than usual on a particular day. (It's possible there are scale-related reasons that make this infeasible, though.)
- smackfu 16y agoJust not tracking the frequency of the most common words that will never be in the trending topics is probably a big performance win. I'm sure there is an additional blacklist that includes stuff like "and" and "the".
- bruceboughton 16y agoYou know you've made it when your brand name is a stopword.
- StavrosK 16y agoNo, it just prevents comment from trending. Not just disparaging comments, all comments, it seems.
- _e_ 16y agoWell looks like someone is having fun... http://twitpic.com/1yqrwc http://twitpic.com/1yqrwc
- jonknee 16y agoI see "Facebook down again" trending and earlier saw "Facebook down".
- fizx 16y agoTrending topics: Mono Jojoy , Facebook Isnt Working , Bishop Eddie , Internal Server ,
- smackfu 16y agoBefore, two of the trending topics were "Facebooks" and "isnt working".