Google s Tweet Ranking Algorithm Rewards Popular Users and Those They Follow

According to Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow involved in Google's real-time search efforts, the way the company ranks Twitter updates in its search results is "definitely, definitely" more than a popularity contest. This quote came during an interview with MIT's Technology Review where Singhal stressed Google's focus on a Twitter user's overall reputation as a ranking measurement as opposed to simply tallying follower counts. That being said, it still sounds as if Google rewards Twitter's more popular users - that is, the heavily followed accounts on the service. Not only do these accounts...

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