Comments on: BackTweets Advanced Search http://blog.backtype.com/2009/05/backtweets-advanced-search/ BackType News and Updates Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike Montano http://blog.backtype.com/2009/05/backtweets-advanced-search/#comment-1858 Mike Montano Sun, 24 May 2009 03:46:59 +0000 http://blog.backtype.com/?p=487#comment-1858 Fernando, Thanks for the feedback. The fact that shortener's are becoming more popular is exactly why backtweets is so useful in my opinion. Because you have no other way to tell if someone is tweeting links to your domain. I don't understand what use it would be to search the shortened links. We already resolve them, so a search for you domain will find anything that eventually pts to a domain or full path. The only reason I can see to want to search the shortened URL would be if you created it in the first place and want to track it exclusively (even though backtweets search results for your domain will include all of those tweets already). If that is the case though, twitter search has you covered just fine. Fernando,

Thanks for the feedback. The fact that shortener’s are becoming more popular is exactly why backtweets is so useful in my opinion. Because you have no other way to tell if someone is tweeting links to your domain.

I don’t understand what use it would be to search the shortened links. We already resolve them, so a search for you domain will find anything that eventually pts to a domain or full path.

The only reason I can see to want to search the shortened URL would be if you created it in the first place and want to track it exclusively (even though backtweets search results for your domain will include all of those tweets already). If that is the case though, twitter search has you covered just fine.

]]> By: Fernando Fonseca http://blog.backtype.com/2009/05/backtweets-advanced-search/#comment-1857 Fernando Fonseca Sun, 24 May 2009 03:23:34 +0000 http://blog.backtype.com/?p=487#comment-1857 Hello Mike, Thank you for your answer. I understand your explanation and I agree with the solution as far as full domain names go. Still I think that to implement something that could actually parse what is a full domain and a short url and decide to be case sensitive search on the latter would be a great improvement and appreciated by all. Twitter is likely to be the de facto tool for companies, at least in the next 2 years, to promote and interact with their customers. Short urls are the only way to do that and, my opinion is, that the short url market is still going to make a big jump into everyone's life and companies as well. This is just a thought. Thank you for the feedback and for your time. I am happy to discuss this further with you. Hello Mike,
Thank you for your answer. I understand your explanation and I agree with the solution as far as full domain names go.

Still I think that to implement something that could actually parse what is a full domain and a short url and decide to be case sensitive search on the latter would be a great improvement and appreciated by all.

Twitter is likely to be the de facto tool for companies, at least in the next 2 years, to promote and interact with their customers. Short urls are the only way to do that and, my opinion is, that the short url market is still going to make a big jump into everyone’s life and companies as well.

This is just a thought. Thank you for the feedback and for your time.

I am happy to discuss this further with you.

]]> By: Mike Montano http://blog.backtype.com/2009/05/backtweets-advanced-search/#comment-1856 Mike Montano Sun, 24 May 2009 01:15:27 +0000 http://blog.backtype.com/?p=487#comment-1856 You're absolutely right that lower vs. upper case makes a difference wrt the shortened URLs. But, backtweets searches the resolved URLs, and not the original shortened versions, so this is actually a good thing. As a website owner if you owned example.org, then a search for example.org will return all tweets for your domain. If we made the distinction you would miss tweets to Example.org or eXample.org, etc unless you tried every permutation. You’re absolutely right that lower vs. upper case makes a difference wrt the shortened URLs. But, backtweets searches the resolved URLs, and not the original shortened versions, so this is actually a good thing. As a website owner if you owned example.org, then a search for example.org will return all tweets for your domain. If we made the distinction you would miss tweets to Example.org or eXample.org, etc unless you tried every permutation.

]]> By: Fernando Fonseca http://blog.backtype.com/2009/05/backtweets-advanced-search/#comment-1855 Fernando Fonseca Sun, 24 May 2009 00:58:31 +0000 http://blog.backtype.com/?p=487#comment-1855 It is a shame that the service does not implement lower/upper case recognition. With all of those url shortner services around trying to compete for the shortest url lower and upper case do make a difference. Something to take into account, imho. It is a shame that the service does not implement lower/upper case recognition.
With all of those url shortner services around trying to compete for the shortest url lower and upper case do make a difference.

Something to take into account, imho.

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