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"Sounds like the reporter expects Google to be able to scrape and index all tweets in real time." Do we know how this worked on the technical side "back in the
by Zirro 15y ago
"Sounds like the reporter expects Google to be able to scrape and index all tweets in real time."
Do we know how this worked on the technical side "back in the days" when tweets appeared on Google? Did they share a database, or did Google actually scrape in close to real time? (I can't imagine the second alternative being particularly efficient for any of them, though)
- smackfu 15y agoGoogle used to have access to a firehose of live tweets, but then their contract expired. http://mashable.com/2011/07/04/google-realtime-search-suspended/ http://mashable.com/2011/07/04/google-realtime-search-suspen...
- Zirro 15y ago"While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google" "A special feed", that's the information I was looking for. Thanks for the link.