I try to leverage trending topics using spam free creative content, but I’ve noticed a current trend in my tweets not showing up in the top tweets. At first, I circumvented this apparent filtering by replying to someone whose tweet showed in the top tweets, thereby effectively piggybacking someone’s account onto the top tweets page, but twitter caught on fast and that method no longer works. I don’t have a bunch of porn bots as followers so that shouldn’t be a factor.

I welcome all contributions to this topic.

Did I mention the obnoxious noise the tape played sounded sorta like the sound a fax machine makes if you listen in? Did I mention this was before microsoft, winblows and dos? That’s right, all you had was a command prompt and it talked something like this: A:> GoTo: line 176 if n=0 then gosub: line 66.6

Atari games were huge at that time on the original console with those barbaric looking first attempts at joysticks. Anyway, the Atari personal computer, which was what I had wanted because I knew it better quality than what I got because one of my friends had the Atari version and had let me use it. But the TI version was cheaper. I guess I should be grateful and I am that I at least had a computer. But again on both computers the games were way better in graphics and sound than the game console versions.

Edit: Oh, and the monitor was your tv on both models.

Are people here afraid to talk to me?

@rich-brooks

Well, if you know anything about me you should know I oh so love talkin’ to myself. I think nowadays a truly successful business is good at entertaining the consumer and you seem to have been entertained.

Really? No luck, huh? I’m deadly accurate and I think leveraging trending, even sponsored topics, with non-spam creative content can be a huge free advertising source. Who doesn’t love free ad time? Am I right? And I mean huge honking audience. twitter is all the rage these days, don’t ya know?

I’d like to cram that 140 limit up that sharpie colored african inginuity modified suped up snowmobile not snowmachine ridin’ dirty birdie’s tail pipe  you gat’dang’d sons-a-missouri-boat-riding-bees. Then on the other hand it’s good for brushing up on one’s haiku skills.

My goal is to show the world my company’s products and win them over as fans in the process. It appears that twitter is filtering sites and that’s called playing dirty. My approach has always been to hack my way from the inside out. Better for who? Certainly not better for me. I’m on welfare because business is so bad. I’ve been saying this for years: if you don’t want me to have it don’t upload it.

That being said, if I can afford it, I have no problem paying for things I need. But right now I can’t afford it. And I give back by promoting the software I use, for example.

Update: I’ve been testing twitter’s search results today and have found that they are filtering a lot of pages out of the top results. Sponsored topics are even more exclusive, almost no tweets appear in the top results.

@rich-brooks

True they get to make the rules.

Retweets may be part of it, but it’s more complicated than that. Remember, I’ve been monkeying around with this for several months and the adaptive behaviors I’ve observed indicates twitter is filtering results more and more.

It’s not a random person if the trending topics are targeted properly.

Edit: This oughtta make you cringe: you gave me several ideas on how to further hack twitter’s new filtering system without breaking any rules. That’s the rated real definition of the word hack: no rules broken.

On another note, I’d forgotten all about dreamhost until you mentioned it elsewhere. I can’t believe that place’s still around. It’s like the low rent red light district of the internet.