Comments on: Tweet Scan

By: zaphodim

zaphodim — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:36:33 +0000

Ah, it seems you were more observant than I was. I was so blinded by the wonderful criticisms of “winer” that didn’t appear under “davewiner” that I didn’t correctly observe what was happening. I just think the comments about winer are far more interesting than the comments TO winer. Thanks for looking at the tools more closely. It is my firm opinion that we need all the tools we can get to track winer’s activities, in whatever media he moves into. The EOW crew is dedicated and persistent, but tracking the profligate posts of winer is beyond human capacity. BTW, I had to laugh about another notorious asshole showing up in the “winer” tweetscan: guy kawasaki

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:45:31 +0000

I used tweet scan. “winer” does not pick up “davewiner”.

http://www.tweetscan.com/index.php?s=winer

Not a single “davewiner” on that whole page.

By: zaphodim

zaphodim — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:20:34 +0000

Well, that’s probably because I searched “winer” on Tweet Scan, which does pick up “davewiner” too. Don’t know what’s up with the Terraminds gadgetry, all I know is that it appears to be only picking up tweets with “davewiner” in them, which means it’s only picking up tweets targeted @davewiner.

Oh well, I guess Terraminds’ substring search feature doesn’t work, maybe they’ll get it working someday. I’m just trying to find a way to make it easy to access tweets from all of winer’s critics, not just his fanbois. But thanks for working on this, I appreciate it.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:45:11 +0000

I don’t believe that’s the case. I just did a search, and ‘winer’ turned up zero occurrences of the phrase ‘davewiner’

By: zaphodim

zaphodim — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:41:46 +0000

Well, if you search on “winer’ you get “davewiner” too. But proceed as you see fit, I’m not trying to be critical, just trying to include dave’s detractors as well as his sycophants.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:19:56 +0000

Until we can get BOTH “Davewiner” and “winer”, I’m going to stick with the former.

By: zaphodim

zaphodim — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:06:27 +0000

OK, I’ve been following this for a few days, it is fairly clear that the sidebar is only pulling up twitter messages with “davewiner” in it. If you go to Tweetscan and seach on “winer” you get a whole different set of messages. The sidebar is full of messages TO winer, all of them are suckups. The Tweetscan pulls up what people are saying ABOUT winer, and it’s almost 100% negative.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:07:45 +0000

I guess we’ll find out.

By: abacab

abacab — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:05:56 +0000

(Of course, now that I post it, the site seems slow as hell, which might make your sidebar slow to load. Temporary problem? No idea.)

By: abacab

abacab — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:00:43 +0000

http://terraminds.com/twitter/update-rss?query=winer%20OR%20davewiner&

Seems, at a glance, to “catch ‘em all”.