Comments on: Thoughts on Twitter’s New Ranking System for Search http://www.spydertrap.com/blog/2009/05/thoughts-on-twitter%e2%80%99s-new-ranking-system-for-search/ Minneapois online marketing blog covering search engine optimization (SEO), social media, online public relations, online marketing strategy, website development, sponsored search, web analytics and more Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:52:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Wellman http://www.spydertrap.com/blog/2009/05/thoughts-on-twitter%e2%80%99s-new-ranking-system-for-search/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 Brad Wellman Wed, 13 May 2009 20:31:09 +0000 http://www.spydertrap.com/blog/?p=550#comment-3059 Thanks for the comments Scott, much appreciated. You definitely bring up some good points of concern regarding the Twitter ranking system, and the crew over at Twitter definitely has their hands full trying to figure out one that will work. I liked your point about the local specialty store, as it will be difficult for Twitter to discern who is relevant for a given topic beyond those that work for the "local specialty store." Thanks again! It should definitely be interesting to see how it all pans out... Thanks for the comments Scott, much appreciated. You definitely bring up some good points of concern regarding the Twitter ranking system, and the crew over at Twitter definitely has their hands full trying to figure out one that will work. I liked your point about the local specialty store, as it will be difficult for Twitter to discern who is relevant for a given topic beyond those that work for the “local specialty store.”

Thanks again! It should definitely be interesting to see how it all pans out…

]]> By: Scott Hale http://www.spydertrap.com/blog/2009/05/thoughts-on-twitter%e2%80%99s-new-ranking-system-for-search/comment-page-1/#comment-2870 Scott Hale Sat, 09 May 2009 02:33:35 +0000 http://www.spydertrap.com/blog/?p=550#comment-2870 Brad, I prefer the idea that retweets provide a good portion of the weight in a ranking system. I'm less concerned with how many followers a user has than I am with the amount of people passing on the information. Naturally, the power users will have more retweets, but Twitter has been fairly successful in providing a platform where generally useless links die relatively quickly. As you mentioned, the search needs a contextual element that will set it apart from a popularity contest. On the other hand, indexing users on Twitter will inevitably give specific individuals power in controlling content. I do not necessarily want links from Matt Cutts when I run a Twitter search on Google. On Google's level, the problem is not so clear, but consider a local specialty store. Should the owner get the contextual jump in the ranking system? I want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly about this store and the owner is not likely to provide the latter. Thanks for the post, another solid piece of work from the Spyder Trap team. Excited to see what happens. Brad,

I prefer the idea that retweets provide a good portion of the weight in a ranking system. I’m less concerned with how many followers a user has than I am with the amount of people passing on the information. Naturally, the power users will have more retweets, but Twitter has been fairly successful in providing a platform where generally useless links die relatively quickly.

As you mentioned, the search needs a contextual element that will set it apart from a popularity contest. On the other hand, indexing users on Twitter will inevitably give specific individuals power in controlling content. I do not necessarily want links from Matt Cutts when I run a Twitter search on Google.

On Google’s level, the problem is not so clear, but consider a local specialty store. Should the owner get the contextual jump in the ranking system? I want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly about this store and the owner is not likely to provide the latter.

Thanks for the post, another solid piece of work from the Spyder Trap team. Excited to see what happens.

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