twitter top results

[Oracle]

In twitter when you search for something (#searchterm) there are 'top' results and 'all'.

How do i get my tweets in to the 'top' section?

Thanks.

 

[CaseyM]

Are the top results the ones that got retweeted the most?

 

[Oracle]

No. I just searched for a term and the 3 most recent 'top' results were retweeted 1, 1, and 0 times.

 

[Online18Casino]

This is from the twitter support site:

How are Top Tweets selected?

We've built an algorithm that finds the Tweets that have caught the attention of other users. Top Tweets will refresh automatically and are surfaced for popularly-retweeted subjects based on this algorithm. We do not hand-select Top Tweets.

Check out this link, some good twitter FAQs about the top tweets.
https://support.twitter.com/groups/...rticles/131209-faqs-about-top-search-results#

 

[davemerry]

I'd imagine that the algorithm uses a wide variety of factors but all would be based around popularity, I'd suspect the below to be important:

- The level of recent interaction. How much has that tweet been retweeted etc.
- How many followers the account has
- How active the account is
- How often other accounts have interacted that account previously, previous retweets etc.
- How long the accounts been active

Just initial thoughts, not a study or anything!