25 Jan 09 Tweetsnet progress

Still debugging Tweetsnet… found a problem in scoring, which was limiting the variety of people whose cites could score anything at all.  That’s fixed, along with more minor items that I’m finding as I review the code.

I have added Twitter Trends as a source for discovering more URL citations.  The system periodically grabs the Trends list (had to learn a little JSON to do that) and combines the phrases with “http” to find trending tweets that also have URLs in them.

The changes I made earlier today have greatly slowed down the number of published items, as the system builds up information about non-aggregator sources.