Strange Conversations: Part One Hundred and Sixty-Eight
Posted 11 July 2009 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
ME: So, will my tweet about Torchwood show up in the Twitter feed? Even though I didn’t explicitly tag it?
NICK: Well, there is a text-based search that indexes all the content.
ME: Right.
NICK: Tagging isn’t necessary. It just makes it easier for third-party tools that use it.
(Pause)
ME: There are a lot of third-party tools using Twitter, aren’t there?
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John wrote at Jul 13, 02:59 am
There were many tweets concerning the Hottest 100 that confirm that, yes, there are.
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Catriona wrote at Jul 13, 03:05 am
I can well believe it—and I stopped looking at any tweet tagged “Michael Jackson” (or any version thereof, including “Micheal Jackson”) about ten seconds after his death was confirmed. That was when I first formulated this theory.