Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing

Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by senthil_rajasek on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:47PM (#895487)

retweets are one way to quantify relevance. "real people" are not going to retweet something unless they find it meaningful.

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by riffer on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:54PM (#895496)

I like the idea, but what's going to stop a bot from re-tweeting?

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by siong1987 on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @04:40PM (#895575)

If a lot of people have retweeted you, you are ranked higher on the list, which means that your retweet is ranked higher than retweet from a bot.

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by Devilboy on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @06:59PM (#895838)

Yes but nothing stops a botter from running thousands of bots re-tweeting the main spambot's tweets.

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by axod on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @05:22PM (#895646)

Disagree. As I said a week or so ago. Retweeting is often the same as an email asking you to forward it to 100 friends to get good luck. I don't think that makes for very good measurement of what is important and what isn't.

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