Twitter to clean up trending topics for boring, redundant search results.
VentureBeat Nov 05 09
Twitter is cleaning up trending topics by returning more relevant results when you look up popular keywords people are tweeting about.
One of the neatest little features that grew out of the Twitter phenomenon last year were these trending topics. The company adopted them after acquiring search engine Summize. They pick up popular keywords or phrases that the community is buzzing about and have been a useful way to find out about news.
But as Twitter has grown in size, its topics have been more and more mainstream (and dare I say, dumb?) One of the top terms for the last hour is #whenimdrunk, where people tweet about what they do when they’re drunk. Full story...
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