Hot retweets: Tracking popular forwarded messages on Twitter

Zheng @ playfun RT 20090208

Juwang.com has been searching for various methods to show you the best content on social media.

So far, we have providedSocial recommendation  Social dialogue  Liked

And today's hot retweetsThese four ways to explore the social media world.

Hot retweets is a mashup Application Based on Twitter APIs.

 

What is retweet?

Retweet is the exclusive term of Twitter, that is, the meaning of "repost" (forward). When you send a sentence, everyone thinks it makes sense and wants to help spread it out, you can send a "retweet" (or "rtwt" or "RT"), which is actually just a common twitter message, simply add the words "RT" or "rwrt". Your followers will automatically see the message "resend" and generate a conversation with you.

Playgroup RT can automatically aggregate the number of retweet times of a message and generate a hot message list accordingly. You can track the list to find out what is popular in the Chinese Twitter world.

 

What is a memetracker application?

What is memetracker? It is memes that manually or automatically tracks human community activities. In short, it is (potentially) popular trends and hot messages.

In order to track memes of different Internet groups in a timely manner, the Internet world has developed many applications, such:

• Digg.com
• Slashdot
• Reddit
• Techmeme
• Rssmeme
• Playgroup SR
• Fun SD
• Google hot list

The typical applications listed above are mostly for traditional web content. People can easily make memetracker applications, such as twitturly and, tweetmeme, retweetist, role.

 

Hot Spot Discovery Based on Twitter RT Behavior

As previously defined in retweet, we can know that RT often uses the following words:

• RT
• Rwrt
• Retweeting
• Retweet

So we can easily track the Real-Time Twitter information using the Twitter API, as long as the comments and other texts added to people's forwarding are removed and summarized slightly, you will be able to get the Chinese Twitter world at this moment what Twitter messages are being forwarded, And what feelings are being expressed.

This application does not need to restrict the user group to be tracked, so you will see all types of Twitter messages.

 

Following the e-Example of Flickr

I like this feature very much: caffe, discovering interesting photos of the last seven days on flickrland, and having fun at random. Of course, its video mining is also good, but relatively speaking, it is more intuitive to discover interesting photos, and whether the content is more open to appetite.

So,

Twitter messages that are repeatedly forwarded (retweet) through Twitter APIs,

Following the E idea of Flickr, mashup came up with this prototype:

Playmates RT

 

Summary

Twitter is a good user in China and has a large number of users than friendfeed.Playmates RTLiked, which is based on friendfeed, can better reflect the current hot spot.

Appendix:

Http://rt.ju690.com /? V = new & n = 16 & D = 7

URL parameter prompt:

V: indicates the browsing method provided. New represents the latest RTS, and URL represents the latest mention of the HTTP link.

D: represents the number of days. The maximum value is 60;

N: The number of messages returned on a page. The maximum value is 100.

Appendix B:

Social recommendation (Social Recommendation)

Social dialogue (Social Dialogue)

Social liked 

Hot retweets