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Happy Holidays from Gmail – http://bit.ly/8J460b
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Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry. Well it’s about time! – http://bit.ly/8ADlMB
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I like the guy who says “a dream come true for some people”
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/11/28/us/1247465561593/higher-schooling-in-michigan.html
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Higher Education
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Why would a lender lower payments for an incentive of only $1K per year? http://bit.ly/7AJaI7
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Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody
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This old man was driving his car right at us … turned out he just needed directions, but he scared us to death.
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She is not a big fan of car rides.
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great tip – make any gloves work with a touch screen http://bit.ly/62Tbc7
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headed to see the family for Thanksgiving
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headed out for Thanksgiving dinner
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apparently, my city has that “hip mix of academia and atmosphere” http://bit.ly/5qnndu
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I couldn’t agree more. In 2006 I would have unsubscribed from almost any feed that did not offer the full text in it’s feed. Today, I prefer to read only headlines and/or excerpts. The iPhone is one reason and the echo chamber is another. I see the same or similar headline over and over but at least I don’t have to read the same comments about those headlines – or scroll past them.
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funniest things I’ve read all day (not counting a re-read of that Onion article, I guess) – http://bit.ly/8HFsQ1
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liberals don’t do that – http://bit.ly/8AZje8
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very cool JavasScript hack and a cool clock – http://bit.ly/4J2IdV
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popcorn and soda the same as 3 quarter pounders topped with 12 pats of butter http://bit.ly/61hiIV
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Eagles settle for a field goal after 260 yard drive
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water drops at 2000 frames per second – Very Cool! http://bit.ly/1SUTk5
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touchdown Jets!
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headed to the game w @soysauce357 (a huge Jags fan) J-E-T-S JETS! JETS! JETS!
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RT @Hybernaut: We’re all impressed that A-Rod can last all the way to October when he skips April, May, and June?
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RT @charitywater: great post by @J0NATHAN_G: in Huffpo re: women & water – http://tinyurl.com/yjwaf3o
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RT @douglasi: Everyone Follow @DrewFromTV ASAP! Every follower he gets up to 1 million is a $1 donation to @LiveStrong! PLS PASS ON!
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trying out a new ping app
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ping.fm app on my phone doesn’t seem to work right
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#mb still pulling for the Angels and for the rain to slow down
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#mbnofb wow, it is really raining now
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@tt @tr @fb wondering why it’s necessary to start these games at 8p.m.
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this guy is a great pitcher #mbnofb
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pulling for the Angels
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“It Might Be Loud” was a great film. Check it out if u can – http://bit.ly/23o1GZ
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thinking of seeing “It Might Get Loud” – anybody seen it?
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here is the pic of Larry since the other is no longer available – http://bit.ly/36bd5Z
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carving Bob and Larry pumpkins
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Conan v. Cory – O’Brien and his ongoing fight with the mayor of Newark, NJ – http://bit.ly/OmM80
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well, it was a great game last night (Jets/Dolphins) but I was hoping for a different outcome
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this is very rare, but I agree with O’Reilly on this one – http://bit.ly/19ZcSH
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looking forward to another great Jets v. Dolphins MNF – remember this one? http://bit.ly/1M0vhr
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hangin’ with @redskinsfan http://ping.fm/jy6tg
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at Redskins park http://ping.fm/p0FCo
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headed to Redskins training camp http://ping.fm/pBSAj
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got my #GoogleWave invite on Monday – checking it out now
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meetings all day. waiting for one now – time for #flickchart
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Happy Independence Day! We’re headed to DC for the fireworks and to pick up @soysauce357 – pics to follow
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looks like we’re going to the game – Let’s Go Mets!
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just got a call “last notice blah …” which went on to say “press 2 to disable future notices”
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wrapping up a long day and going to bed
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great plugins for quicklook – http://bit.ly/tQgCx
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Dreamhost has lost the data for one of my domains and the level of support they are providing is almost insulting.
I understand they are struggling with what must be a major catastrophe and I’m sure they have a lot of clients to deal with but I wanted to recount my experience here because I think it needs to be shared.
First of all, some background.
I’ve hosted hundreds of my own websites using the services of 7 different hosting companies. I’ve also worked with another dozen hosting companies while working with clients.
I’ve been a programmer for almost 30 years and been using the Internet since the very early 80s.
I started blogging in 2001 and have done so very sporadically ever since. Like many people, I’ve changed hosts and blogging platforms several times. I’ve done my best to keep my data backed up. At one point I purposely left my blog archived in one location and started fresh in a new place. The other times, I carefully moved over data.
I’ve had an inexpensive hosting plan with Dreamhost for some time now. I’ve used it to host a few low traffic websites and been happy with it. I have had the occasion to ask for support and they’ve been more helpful than I expected. I have (and do) pay much more for hosting in other places and I get about the same level of support (no phone support but I usually don’t need that).
I recently moved my personal and my work blog to Dreamhost and decided I’d be more diligent about posting to both frequently. I even slotted a bunch of topics to cover while I was in Italy on vacation. I kept up with it well and was building the habit once again.
Then, on the last day of April I went to my blog to find a link to a cool website I’d posted about and I found that the site was down. I went through all the steps to ensure that something was not wrong on my end and then I submitted a support request.
This is how things went.
On 4/30/2009 at 17:40 ET I sent this.
SUBJECT: My Site Is Down I tried to visit http://ping.fm/zHowj and http://ping.fm/4150C and I get nothing. I tried launching CyberDuck and connecting to my account. I use apache2-vat.dio.dreamhost.com, user soistmann, and I type my password in manually. I get a socket error. Then I tried using your WebFTP and it doesn’t work. Then I tried CyberDuck again using whsjr.soistmann.com as the hostname - socket error. I have my soistmann.com domain set up to work with Tumblr and if I remember correctly you had to do something for me to make that work and keep my subdomain working. Not sure if that is relevant but I thought I’d mention it. My domain is registered until 4/26/2010 and the nameservers are set to Dreamhost. I have not tried from another network but I will shell out somewhere soon and try.
I received a message from Dreamhost on 4/30/2009 at 17:40
Hello, This is just a notification that your message has been moved to our severe problem queue. This queue is for major outages that cause a large amount of support to come in. Our goal is to resolve the problem based on the information you have provided. We will then send you an update once the issue is resolved. Depending on the problem it may take longer than 24 hours for a response. Please hang in there, when messages are moved here your problem is given top priority. Please note that callback support is not available for messages moved here. Thanks! The Dreamhost Ticket Moving Robot!
Then I got another reply on 5/1/2009 at 01:03:57
Hello, I’m terribly sorry about the problems related to your account being down. We had a large scale outtage on several servers today, causing many accounts to go missing. Some, are backup, some are still being restored. We’ve announced the issues here: http://ping.fm/qe0UF We’re still working on these issues, and should have them taken care of soon. You can continue to monitor that page, for further updates, or if you need personal attention, please email me at brian@dreamhost.com You can also contact Ralph@dreamhost.com for more info as well, we’re both in the loop on this issue =) NOTE: this is a mass email sent to all users experiencing problems on the problem machine. If your support message was not addressed, please use the above email address for a faster response to your issue Again, sorry about all this, we should have things worked out shortly! =) Thanks! Brian H
So I replied on 5/1/2009 at 8:55
Thank you for your email. I had checked the status page before I sent my support request and I even did some searching to be sure you hadn’t announced this outage. I *DID* see some other serious issues so I assumed something was wrong. As long as my sites will be back up, I am okay.
I received this reply immediately.
SUBJECT: Thank you very much for your recent email inquiry to Ralph! This email is to let you know that we have received your message and routed it to Brian in our Support Department. Because you have sent it to a specific DreamHoster, rather than to support@dreamhost.com, there’s a chance your message may not be replied to within 24 hours. If you need a quicker response, please open a ticket through our web panel at: http://ping.fm/vZLVn so anyone can reply to it! Your tracking # is 3083702. We would also like to take this moment to point out our new very extensive Wiki (Documentation Site) at http://ping.fm/bQlqZ Many of the questions we get can be answered with a quick visit! Thanks again for contacting DreamHost, and we’ll be attempting to do our best to resolve your issue in the most timely and professional manner we can!
Then I got this one about 10 hours later – 5/1/2009 at 18:35
Hello, This is just a notification that your message has been moved to our severe problem queue. This queue is for major outages that cause a large amount of support to come in. Our goal is to resolve the problem based on the information you have provided. We will then send you an update once the issue is resolved. Depending on the problem it may take longer than 24 hours for a response. Please hang in there, when messages are moved here your problem is given top priority. Please note that callback support is not available for messages moved here. Thanks! The Dreamhost Ticket Moving Robot!
Then I got this one about five hours after the last one – 5/1/2009 at 23:25
Subject: Re: Server Outage Hello, Sorry about the problems with the machines batman, dio, deathlok and johnnyblaze. We have corrected the problem but unfortunately there was data loss. If you had data loss we contacted you about this situation separately. At this point everything should be working correctly for you now on these machines, with the exception of those you who have experienced data loss. If you lost data and you were not contacted about that separately please let me know at ralph@dreamhost.com. Once again sorry about the problems. All of our restoration efforts have completed and we have done our best to contact those affected by data loss. If you have any further questions, concerns or problems you would like me to address please let me know at ralph@dreamhost.com. Thanks! Ralph
I wasn’t sure if any of the vague emails I was receiving were about data loss so I sent an email to Ralph on 5/2/2009 at 9:24.
Subject: DATA LOSS I lost data and I am not sure I was contacted. I got an email about moving my ticket in to the “severe problems” category. What’s going on? Will you be able to recover my data?
I received this response immediately.
SUBJECT: Thank you very much for your recent email inquiry to Ralph! This email is to let you know that we have received your message and routed it to Ralph in our Support Department. Because you have sent it to a specific DreamHoster, rather than to support@dreamhost.com, there’s a chance your message may not be replied to within 24 hours. If you need a quicker response, please open a ticket through our web panel at: http://ping.fm/e9JFl so anyone can reply to it! Your tracking # is 3085612. We would also like to take this moment to point out our new very extensive Wiki (Documentation Site) at http://ping.fm/P5S3s Many of the questions we get can be answered with a quick visit! Thanks again for contacting DreamHost, and we’ll be attempting to do our best to resolve your issue in the most timely and professional manner we can!
Then I received this message on 5/2/2009 at 20:03.
Subject: Message from support. Hello, I’m terribly sorry about the dataloss you experienced due to the debacle we had with your server. Basically, the server you’re on wasn’t correctly backing up, so there’s a good possibility that we have lost your data for good. We’re still working on that, and are doing everything we can do make sure any data we have, is not lost. We are reviewing every single account individually, so it may take us a little more time than you’d like, but please rest assured we’re doing everything we can to get back that data. Unfortunately, I should mention not to get your hopes up, however. I’m leaving your message open in our special queue dedicated to this, so that we can update you based on what info we have, when we get it. We will be offering compensation to all users effected, and we sincerely apologize for any problems this may have caused you. Thanks! Brian H
I responded on 5/3/2009 at 16:23.
Subject: Re: Message from support. I am **very** confused and would like a response. If the server crashed and you don’t have a backup, why are many of my websites not down as well???
I received this message on 5/4/2009 at 8:19.
Hello, Your inquiry has been moved to the queue of a specific tech support team member (this is either because they are already familiar with your case or are the best equipped to assist you with this specific issue). They will respond to you as quickly as they can but depending on the complexity of the issue it may take longer than normal for them to get back to you (even in excess of 24 hours in some cases). Thanks! The Dreamhost Ticket Moving Robot!
I replied to this message on 5/4/2009 at 18:24.
I really need to talk to someone about this. These vague emails are driving me nuts. I asked a very specific question.
I received this reply immediately.
We’re sorry.. your email was unable to be processed by our automatic support system, and so is being returned to you. Our system could not find the open support case you were replying to, and so could not automatically tie your message into our system. If this was a reply to an EXISTING issue, please be sure to keep the: [blah 123456] in the subject line of your reply! If this is regarding a NEW issue, we must ask that you submit it through our web panel at: http://ping.fm/2YjXO (You can log in with this email address and your panel password.. have it emailed to you if you’ve forgotten it!) All messages submitted through that form are guaranteed to be received! Our apologies for the inconvenience,So I sent the same email direcly to Ralph on 5/4/2009 at 18:32 and I received this response immediately.
Thank you very much for your recent email inquiry to Ralph! This email is to let you know that we have received your message and routed it to Ralph in our Support Department. Because you have sent it to a specific DreamHoster, rather than to support@dreamhost.com, there’s a chance your message may not be replied to within 24 hours. If you need a quicker response, please open a ticket through our web panel at: http://ping.fm/MeTDY so anyone can reply to it! Your tracking # is 3089296. We would also like to take this moment to point out our new very extensive Wiki (Documentation Site) at http://ping.fm/oZOZK Many of the questions we get can be answered with a quick visit! Thanks again for contacting DreamHost, and we’ll be attempting to do our best to resolve your issue in the most timely and professional manner we can!
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getting a bunch of vague “support” emails from @dreamhost – site is down, they have no backup, I do but I can’t connect to rebuild
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Cutler ignoring SMS – perhaps a heart-felt tweet is in order
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Happy St. Patrick’s day – I am orange http://bit.ly/BapQI
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is Twitter about to “jump the shark?” – http://bit.ly/5ePV5
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Listening to “Too Much Information” http://bit.ly/Tqsry – u ain’t kiddn’
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iPhone app finally approved – forgot to mention it
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finally catching up on my work blog – http://bit.ly/HrFsh
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recovering from a full day of email – check out the stories at http://ping.fm/XgS0F
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when should a judge recuse himself – http://bit.ly/R2ICY
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Good News – Girl Scouts remake will not do away with cookies http://bit.ly/14fNJT
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I’m glad Slumdog stole the show last night, what do you think?
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godaddy suggested securemeouttothespheregames.info as a replacement for takemeouttotheballgame.com which was taken
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great info for parents – http://ping.fm/BfxaR
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I’ve really tried not to give George Will a hard time since he’s a baseball fan, but http://bit.ly/UOmWd
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our schools could do a lot of things differently but this is a start – dropping grade levels http://bit.ly/T1i4h
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turn Twitter into your personal assistant http://bit.ly/cOWU6
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waiting for The Office
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It’s Super Bowl time.
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posting from ping.fm
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looking forward to a good game
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why don’t you try reading the rules shankopotamus
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@bigdarnhero oddly enough I think it may be a better game than usual
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just read- No actor who’s won an Oscar for directing has ever prevailed in a performance category. Does anyone know if that is correct?
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wondering if Twitter helped solve Google’s problem http://bit.ly/2DyISw
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glad the Google problem seems to be fixed – seems that about 300 of you spotted the problem before I did – not by much
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getting “This site may harm your computer” on almost every Google result. ? even for “twitter” “flickr” and “youtube”
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got my season tickets at Citi Field
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dumbfounded that Bank of America is using bailout funds to fight with it’s employees http://twurl.nl/y40s1d
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God made dirt and dirt don’t hurt – http://ping.fm/5l5FN
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checking new version of Twhirl for infinite loops using Ping.fm
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The existence of any ranking system based on retweeting, officially sponsored by Twitter or not, will have a negative impact on the Twitter experience. It will change the way people tweet. IMO, that is a bad thing.
Yesterday I posted about filtering Twitter search results and I left off with a quote about Google’s PageRank which I think is apropos to the discussion of ranking tweets based on the number of retweets (or twitterers based on the number of tweets being retweeted – or sheer number of retweets from a twtterer)
PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to “understand” the web caused the web itself to change. -Jeremy Zawodny
The importance of this cannot be understated. Google, once a company which wanted to provide relevant search results by understanding the relationships between webpages, is now a company that dictates the decisions of millions of webmasters. They don’t do this by decree, it is simply a function of people’s desires to be found on the web.
Google’s idea was a good one – use the structure and nature of html pages to rank them in terms of importance (“authority”) and then use that as one criterion for determining the relevancy of a page. This good idea led to at least two inherent problems.
First, it lent authority to webmasters who deserved no such thing. Years ago, I had several web pages with decent pagerank. As a result, I could post a page about almost any subject and my page would rank higher (perhaps) than a real expert on the subject. As I noted yesterday, others have pointed out this problem. Of course, the web being what it is, my page could be usurped by the proper authority on the subject – IF the web behaved as it used to. This brings us to the next problem.
The web now behaves differently because of Google. I am not complaining about this. I am not unhappy about Google’s existence – quite the opposite. I am simply making an observation that many others have made before me. Webmasters now have some understanding of PageRank and now decide how to construct websites to optimize it.
A retweet ranking system will cause the same thing to happen with Twitter. It will undoubtedly cause people to change the way they tweet. Many users will:
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While number of retweets is certainly better than a straight ranking based on number of followers, it is still very much a function of the number of followers. Ideally, those with more followers need to be retweeted less but I assume that doesn’t hold up in practice. More followers will probably lead to more retweets.
Obviously, I am assuming a simple ranking system which rewards users whose tweets have been retweeted. I understand that a system can be put in place that ranks the tweets and not the twitterer. I’d argue that all points above still hold. I also understand that a more complex formula can be devised, but the point is still that people will tweet differently. Imagine a system that rewards one for retweeting other’s tweets. This will lead to a Digg-like echo chamber where perhaps very few tweet original content.
As I said in yesterday’s post, I am in favor of filtering my Twitter search results. I’m just not a big fan of ranking by retweets. More on that later.
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Loic Le Meur proposes that we need a “search by authority” feature for Twitter and then recommends that number of followers be used as an indication of that authority. Michael Arrington agrees.
Both took some heat for this proposal. Most of it seemed to revolve around the idea that authority equals number of followers, but I think the discussion is more interesting than that one issue.
I can think of at least four questions this raises.
Do we need to filter search results at all?
I think the answer is yes – sometimes.
Gary Arndt comments
Microblogging doesn’t lend itself to search. Period.
I agree, but I think he is overstating a bit. A Twitter search is not the place to do in depth research on a topic, but the fact that the results are “all over the map” doesn’t mean that one can’t find useful results. The timeliness of the results alone can be very useful. There is simply no doubt about this.
Several commenters pointed out that we should all just enjoy Twitter the way it is. I understand the argument here but there is nothing wrong with discussing new ideas and improvements to existing technology. I enjoy Twitter the way it is and plan to use it the way it is, but I don’t mind that others would like to make it more useful.
Most of the time, I want my Twitter search to return more results than I can possibly process. There may be times, however, that I’d rather filter out some results. Having a mechanism to remove those results voluntarily is always a good thing. I use the minus operator all the time to narrow down my searches. If I could filter based on other criteria voluntarily, that would be great too.
Should we filter based on authority?
I hesitate to answer this honestly because I think many of you will stop reading here,
but I think the answer is yes.When I read Loic’s post the other day I was as irritated with his tone as many of you, but I do think his point is a valid one. What he was recommending, according to his clarifying comments, is an option to filter based on authority. While I might not use this feature as much as some, I think it’s a good idea.
I tend to agree with Steven Walling who comments
for many, many people, the point of Twitter search is to find things said about a topic of interest regardless of how influential the person speaking is.
and Joe Duck, who adds
In fact I think it would be interesting to reverse the algo you suggest – I’d rather hear from some Grandmas in Peoria about their iPhone experiences than from Jason Calacanis about [groan] the wonders of Mahalo.
I could not agree more with these two comments. Our family had so much fun on the night of Hillary Clinton’s concession speech.* Terri and I both punched slightly different search criteria into Twitter Search and we read some of the more interesting (and family friendly) comments aloud. It was a good time had by all. None of us cared one bit if the people spouting off had any kind of authority at all. That wasn’t the point.
I may not be interested in search by authority, but I understand why some people want “authority” opinions on a topic from time to time. Some of these might be egomaniacal, but that should not keep us from using an “authority search” for legitimate purposes, should it?
This brings us to the most difficult question of all – though perhaps the least interesting to me personally.
How does one measure authority?
I think the verdict is clear from the weekend discussion – the number of followers is not a good measure of authority. Many people weighed in on this one but two comments sum it up for me:
And if authority is what we’re after I doubt if number of followers equates to authority. Too many really smart people have very few followers. -Dave Winer
Popularity does not equate to accuracy. If it did and Twitter existed 2000 years ago; the earth would still be flat. -Josh Jonte
As far as I’m concerned, that settles it. I’ve used Twitter since 2006 and my experience tells me that the number of followers is not a valid measure of authority.
Nitin Borwankar and Taylor Barr also touch on the problems with such an approach and hint at the possible solutions. I will have more to say about those later.
So, is there some other measure one can use to judge the “authority” of a tweet or twitter user? Scoble and others recommend we use some other metric – retweets, followers/following, someone even proposed
~= #followers/(#faved + #RTs)My interest in finding the perfect formula for this is negligible but I do think that we’ve discovered one other measure that won’t work – retweets.
Once again, I think two comments sum it up best:
A sycophantic echo chamber is as stupid of a metric as # of followers. -T. Luoma
All these popularity contest-like sites and lists full of people echoing each other all the time just seems to take some of the original spirit away from Twitter. imho. -kosso
Michael Arrington points out that “This is exactly what Technorati does with blog search” and Robert Scoble points out that this is just what Google does. This, by itself, is reason to question it in my opinion.
Scoble goes on to point out that according to Google he is the number one result for “recession 2008” “How did that happen?” he asks.
Jeremy Zawodny points out a similar issue in 2003 and correctly (IMO) diagnoses the problem a few months later:
PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to “understand” the web caused the web itself to change. -Jeremy Zawodny
I will pick up my thoughts on this tomorrow, but I do want to bring up the last question.
What other filter criteria might be useful?
It seems clear that at least some users would like to filter search results from time to time. What criteria would be useful to you?
* Terri and my daughter were huge supporters of Hillary Clinton. While my son and I supported Obama from the beginning, we would have wholeheartedly supported Hillary if she’d earned the nomination.
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The Mets really let us down this year.
Billy and I went to Shea for five games (and one rainout) this year. All of our games were after the change in management and it seemed as though the Mets were on a roll. We were certain the Mets would not disappoint us as they did last season.
We also took the girls with us for a game against the Phillies. We had timed it just right. The Mets tied with the Phils for the NL East lead on Sunday 7/20. Both teams were off on Monday and our game was for Tuesday. The Mets beat up on the Philles for more than 7 innings and then it all fell apart. It turned from one of the best days of my life to one of the worst – all in the space of an hour or less.
It was a microcosm of the season really.
One of the games we did get to attend turned out to the last game played at Shea. We’d planned for it to be the last regular season game. We were perfectly willing to let others enjoy the last games if they were in the playoffs.
I didn’t expect the Mets to do much in the playoffs but I wanted them to prove to me that they would not collapse again.
I was in Philly today. I left by 3 so I didn’t get caught up in the mayhem for the 4:35 game. I have to tell you that I was jealous. All those fans enjoying their team’s success. I was a little sick.
Watching game two now and the Phillies are in the midst of a rally. Ugh.
Go Dodgers!
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testing tumlr integration
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bsoist
I’ve used WordPress since the days of it’s ancestor b2 and I use it to operate a few small websites
I am a big fan so I couldn’t resist getting a subdomain at wordpress.com.
