I've been tracking a few words on Twitter for a while now, and I've realized that my iPhone never gets any updates for them. I get PLENTY of updates from the people that I track on mobile, but none from my tracked words.
For instance, I track "Dfest", as it's a music conference that I'm going to this weekend. I thought there just hadn't been any updates with "Dfest" in them, but once I checked out Summize (Twitter search), I saw a lot of updates for "Dfest" over the last few days.
I even texted "tracks" to Twitter to make sure I was tracking it, and it verified my claim. It showed me quite a few words, none of which I have ever received updates for.
I keep getting updates/twitters from people I have never followed before but they all have the same thing in common, they are twittering about CNN. I followed CNN but no longer do and I don't understand why I'm getting tweets from people I don't follow about CNN. Help!
I got an IM about a way to track interests. But I don't know how to set up the interests. Is there some documentation on what this tracking this is, how to set it up and how it works?
I am set to receive updates on my phone, which works fine, except that I do not receive @replies to me, not even from people I receive every update of, not even if I use "track myusername".
How can I see what I'm "track"ing? Twitter.com has good UI to see who I follow, who follows me (even if the two have different labels ... but I digress). But I can't spot any way to refresh my aging memory of which "tracks" I have registered.
How long does it take for updates to be sent to my mobile phone after I've sent in a word to be tracked? I've already set up my mobile phone and sent in a word to track and nothing is updating on my phone when i can see updates for the same keyword happening on my Twitter page.
Be great to be abe to see a ranking of the most popular tracked words/phrases among twitterers. The two 'charts' that I think would be especially useful (although there is scope for others) are:
(1) the most common trackwords added in the previous 7 days (to gauge what's on twitterers' minds currently), and
(2) simple ranking by number of tracks for a particular word/phrase (to gauge what interests us generally).
The ability to see a list of twitterers tracking a particular word would also be useful (provided they had 'opted in' to making their tracks public, for obvious privacy reasons) - it could be a great way to connect to others with similar interests.
Another useful feature would be a tool that would enable a user to input a particualr word or phrase and receive back tracking stats for that particular word/phrase (number of trackers, usernames of those tracking it publicly, etc) .
And if all this sounds like too much of a development challenge for the already-busy folks at Twitter, I'm fairly confident that with the appropriate API additions, third-party developers would rise to it. (I'm not a developer myself, I hasten to add, so for all I know this is already possible.)
The 'Untrack,' 'off' and 'stop' commands don't seem to be working. My phone is jamming up with tweets generated hours ago as a result of tracking the word 'lost,' a word used way too often in the English language as I'm finding out. Must I wait until my phone pulls in these 500+ text messages before twitter will respond to my plea to make it stop? Oh, sometimes it really HURTS being a newbie....
Could someone from Twitter please address whether or not the 'Track' function will be restored when IM is brought back online. There was a mention that 'track' currently should work with SMS -- I haven't tested that. Please comment, your lack of openness on this issue is troubling.
I was just wondering: the initial intent of Twitter was to be able to 'follow' others. You knew whose information you were interested in and you 'subscribed' to follow them. There was a one-to-one relationship between you and everyone you followed.
However, with the implementation of the 'track' command, there is no longer a deterministic relationship between you and the people you follow. In fact, when you decide to "track" something, you do not know who you are following because anyone who is registered with Twitter can post an update that includes the things you're tracking and you will get the update, even if you were not interested in following that person. So what that they posted something that you tracked. The match may be purely coincidental.
Wouldn't it be better to apply 'track' filters only to the twitters you follow?
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