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I’m
frustrated
SocialPing should improve its search algorithm to include the search term within another word (i.e. term = "udemy". when "udemy.com" is tweeted, it should show up as a mention of "udemy")
It would be great for keyword searches to work the same as Twitter's RSS feeds. Example: On SocialPing, I have a search for "udemy" but when a tweet has www.udemy.com or @udemy or anything like that, it doesn't show up. Twitter's RSS feed for the search term "udemy" does, however. So, I still use FeedMyInbox on top of SocialPing because SocialPing doesn't get all the combinations of when Udemy shows up on Twitter.
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EMPLOYEE
I’m
undecided, unsure, thankful
If your watchlist item is "udemy", then we'll match tweets that include @udemy, #udemy and $udemy, in addition to just "udemy". We also allow for a few slight variations, like "udemy's" or "udemy'd" would still match. If you explicitly watch for @udemy, that's going to be the only thing that we match - it disables the other types because you are explicitly saying I want to watch for "@this" username.
The problem with allowing searches inside of text is that, if I want to watch for "Ed", I am going to get every tweet that contains "watched", "shared", "tweeted", "feeds", "eddy", etc. There would be so many false matches that it'd be unusable.
We have played with regex support with a few clients, but unfortunately it seems that regex's are too complicated for most, and are a bit too resource intensive for us to want to roll them out to all.
I would say that we should add the capability only if it was the domain (minus the TLD), but that's basically duplicating what we do with the domain and URL search types that we are working on. The biggest difference with those, is if a URL is shortened we'll still be able to show you a tweet that links to your domain. Adding support for domain matching in the text wouldn't allow that.
I am going to mark this as "not planned" for now because the only specific case that you may miss something is if it's inside a URL, and the URL and Domain search types will hopefully be released shortly.Comment -
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EMPLOYEE
I’m
happy
There is a blog post that we wrote last week that explains how to get what I think you're looking for. It still isn't the complete solution though and I'm not sure it'll work in your specific case.
http://blog.socialping.com/2010/07/wa...
In short, you may want to try the following to see if it works any better:
udemy AND *udemy.com* -
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EMPLOYEE
I’m
happy
We have made further changes to our algorithm that makes our system operate very similarly to Twitter search. Your watchlist item, "udemy" should now match @udemy, #udemy and http://www.udemy.com, in addition to tweet that say udemy in them.
As a part of this new matching algorithm we removed using the asterisk support from our matching engine. -
