Matching keywords with Tweet results in Filter API

kurtismullins · 2013-03-22T20:31:40.000Z

Hello,

I’m using the Filter API and am tracking multiple keywords. I am looking at various methods on organizing each Tweet returned according to the Keyword used to find it.

This appears to be fairly straight-forward. Basically, I am just searching for my keywords within the Text and “marking” the Tweet accordingly.

However, there are cases where I am not sure whether or not I am following Twitter’s algorithm. For example, what happens if I were to search for a Term such as “Twitter Developer”? Does it literally only return Tweets that include (case-insensitive, I’m sure) the literal sub-string “Twitter Developer”? Or, does it also return permutations of that string, such as “Twitter” or “Developer”? Are there any other weird results that I may not know about?

I’m just trying to create a fairly reliable implementation, staying as close to Twitter’s algorithm as possible. It’d be great if this data was actually included in the Tweet objects received in the Stream

Thanks!

Kurtis

kurtismullins · 2013-03-22T20:34:12.000Z

Also; I should mention. There may be cases where punctuation or other “weird” characters are included. Does Twitter deal with this in a special way?

I suppose the overall question is, how does Twitter decide which Tweets match a given keyword?

Thanks ahead of time.

kurtismullins · 2013-03-26T12:08:38.000Z

Bump

episod · 2013-03-26T14:46:20.000Z

We detail our strategy for track matching here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/parameters#track

kurtismullins · 2013-03-27T19:53:19.000Z

Thanks! I’m still a little fuzzy on a few details but this clarifies quite a bit. I’m surprised I wasn’t able to find it while searching around.