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That page is faked; I just see the same entries come up again and again after I refresh. Brilliant marketing technique, indeed.

by evdawg 17y ago

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bentlegen 17y ago
I believe they're just marking tweets as favorites, then pulling only those: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-favorites http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-favorite...
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mitchellh 17y ago
They aren't fake entries. If you click on the actual entry you can click "View on Twitter" and it goes to the actual tweet that said it. They're probably just caching the tweets and updating them every so often.
- christopherolah 17y ago
  They might be real entries, that doens't mean they're randomly chosen. MS probably selected a bunch that made them look good, and then threw in a few that were somewhat neutral to make it look fair (I'm thinking the downloading, what are the new features one)...
dualogy 17y ago
I think they rotate and repeat them but they might still be real entries.
- throw_away 17y ago
  http://twitter.com/yogi4change/status/5108003634 http://twitter.com/yogi4change/status/5108003634 http://twitter.com/NewChannelMedia/status/5071269000 http://twitter.com/NewChannelMedia/status/5071269000 here are a random couple I tracked down by handle (some I tried to track down, but couldn't find). from the current moment, they are 7 and 22 hours old.
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    You click the message and it gives you details, including "view on twitter". The one I checked was 20 hours old but seemed to be part of a genuine stream unless they went to the trouble of creating a back-catalogue of tweets in order to astro-tweet (!).
    - throw_away 17y ago
      I think it's more interesting than that. they obviously picked the tweets as those search streams have all sorts of junk in them. so, they had to pluck out tweets that sounded twitter-ish, but not too twitter-ish. not sure if this was done by humans or robots.

That page is faked; I just see the same entries come up again and again after I refresh. Brilliant marketing technique, indeed.

by evdawg 17y ago

That page is faked; I just see the same entries come up again and again after I refresh. Brilliant marketing technique, indeed.

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bentlegen 17y ago

I believe they're just marking tweets as favorites, then pulling only those: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-favorites http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-favorite...

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mitchellh 17y ago

They aren't fake entries. If you click on the actual entry you can click "View on Twitter" and it goes to the actual tweet that said it. They're probably just caching the tweets and updating them every so often.

christopherolah 17y ago
They might be real entries, that doens't mean they're randomly chosen. MS probably selected a bunch that made them look good, and then threw in a few that were somewhat neutral to make it look fair (I'm thinking the downloading, what are the new features one)...

dualogy 17y ago

I think they rotate and repeat them but they might still be real entries.

throw_away 17y ago
http://twitter.com/yogi4change/status/5108003634 http://twitter.com/yogi4change/status/5108003634 http://twitter.com/NewChannelMedia/status/5071269000 http://twitter.com/NewChannelMedia/status/5071269000 here are a random couple I tracked down by handle (some I tried to track down, but couldn't find). from the current moment, they are 7 and 22 hours old.
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  You click the message and it gives you details, including "view on twitter". The one I checked was 20 hours old but seemed to be part of a genuine stream unless they went to the trouble of creating a back-catalogue of tweets in order to astro-tweet (!).
  - throw_away 17y ago
    I think it's more interesting than that. they obviously picked the tweets as those search streams have all sorts of junk in them. so, they had to pluck out tweets that sounded twitter-ish, but not too twitter-ish. not sure if this was done by humans or robots.