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How does this website get ahold of this type of information? (Twitter/FB 'shares')

by oldwarrioruser1
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A website that has the top Viral Videos according to how many times hey have been shared on Twitter and FB over the past 24 hours.

How in the heck do they keep track of those stats?
#ahold #hares #information #twitter or fb #type #website
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Lewis
    I think there are bots that travel the web finding everything and how many times things have been posted and what not.
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    • Profile picture of the author bradlean
      Future is unpredictable.

      Let's just see about that what will happend.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimba
    I found some new stories where Bing is working with the social sites.

    Microsoft is creating a new section of search results on its Bing search engine that will aggregate tweets, Twitter trends and the top links being shared at any given moment by users of Facebook, according to a demo shown a few moments ago at the SMX Advanced search conference in Seattle.
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    • Profile picture of the author oldwarrioruser1
      Originally Posted by jimba View Post

      I found some new stories where Bing is working with the social sites.
      Link Please?
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberSorcerer
    It's programmer's having access to the API's of Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

    You'd be surprised at some of the software I've programmed for my personal use can do.

    All someone has to do is find a good PHP, or .NET programmer, and get to doing a little bit of work and you'll be shocked at what you can through out. That is if you or the programmer, or both of you, have creative minds and think outside the box.

    That is why Google keeps a good watch on a programmers API key to see how many times he's hitting the framework and what he's calling.
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