Realtime twitter search widget — per post
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I would like each of my posts to include a real-time cycling list of tweets referencing that post.
Basically, a twitter search (http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search) included in each of my posts where I can change the search term to match the title of my post.
This would be a great way to monitor and encourage interest in individual posts as well as make static posts more alive and coversational.
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Better than a search term would be the option to use something like the google search operator “link” where I could also display all tweets that link to my post
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Understood. That’s why I put it in the idea thread… it’s an idea that I would like to see realized at wordpress.com.
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The thing is, from a logistics standpoint, this would be a biggie. WordPress would have to be constantly scanning each and every twit and for each and every post on each and every blog continuously. The load not only on the wordpress servers, but on the twitter servers would be astronomical, and probably end up bringing both services to their knees. Not to mention the additional bandwidth usage that would happen on each end.
Sorry, but I can’t see it happening considering there are on average over 210,000 posts done per day on wordpress.COM. That is 8750 or so per hour, every hour of each day. Now certainly not every blogger here is also a twit, but I think you can see the enormity of the issue.
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I’m not a web engineer. That being said, while WP does not enable its users to run scripts the developers run their own on the back end.
This would be a matter of engineering a widget that would flow Twitter data into WP pages. I could be wrong, but I don’t think WP would have to be scanning anything. Just flowing in a feed from Twitter.
I think it’s an idea worthy of dev consideration.
While I have no way of knowing how realistic the idea is, software development is ultimately about problem solving.
And if the idea is problematic, I think the problem might be worth solving.
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There IS a similar plugin for WP.org blogs, so presumably it’;s not so impossible. But it only counts those with direct links to the post.
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Yes, but here you are talking about 2.5 million blogs, not a bunch of single blogs on shared or VPS servers. Something has to monitor, sift through and process all the garbage, looking references to your particular blog times however many people were using that feature.
I doubt seriously that twitter beams that stuff continuously out into the universe, so that means you have to hit twitter with a request for the information and then twitters servers have to process and pull that information from their databases and servers, compress it and send it out. Then when it hits wordpress, their servers have to save it into a database here, then sift through, process and direct everything out to all the different blogs using that feature.
I still contend it would be a logistics nightmare.
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