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Tools to track what's being tracked?
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.)
(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.)
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Inappropriate?Though this would certainly be interesting, I suspect the majority of its use would be to spammers / advertisers as a method of getting their tweets to the maximum number of users
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Inappropriate?That's a valid point. For example, if a spammer knew that "sandwich" was tracked by 70,000 people, they can game the system by sending an advert with the word "sandwich" somewhere in the text and they'd appear in Track alerts.
I'd probably support the idea more if Blocked accounts don't show up in Track alerts (they still do right now)
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Inappropriate?Yeah, I did think of that as a downside - but if accounts could be blocked from track alerts as mdy suggests, then I still think it's worthwhile. -
Inappropriate?i'm tracking unfollow because it tends to be some funny drama and now there are bots that are saying (unfollow if you think this message is abusive) and that sucks that I can't block these people. I'm going to miss out on the lulz now
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Inappropriate?As to your point, I think it sounds interesting, other websites have things like this with a cluster of words, the bigger ones being the more popular. ^_^
But you're right... that would be terribly annoying.
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