How to get a link on Twitter box in Huffington Post?
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Hey guys, got a question about the Huffington Post and its Twitter widget - see screenshot attached
HuffPo seems to be aggregating links somehow under the "Top links on this topic" heading within the Twitter widget. At first I thought this was an official Twitter wdget; http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets
However, I can't find it on Twitter's site and I'm starting to think it's a custom widget possibly developed by HuffPo themselves.
My question is how do I get my site to rank under their "Top links"? Is it feeding on Twitter presence or is it feeding from Google News or through something else?
Many thanks in advance for any light shed on this topic
Edit: Link to Huffington Post page example from screenshot
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Any feedback from HuffPost on that?
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Thanks Ryan! I trawled through their source code too and I've got the feeling it's bespoke, so as you suggested I'll contact HuffPo and see if they'll communicate with me... although I'm not holding my breath!
Thanks again Ryan!
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I have no experience with the Twitter Anywhere software. I simply looked at the site's source code, saw the reference to the software and looked it up. My suggestion is to check the vendor's site and ask them directly about their software and how it works.
A complete guess would be they identify top tweets based on certain criteria such as tweets with the most retweets.
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Thanks a lot Ryan! Have checked out Twitter Anywhere but it looks like it's a widget for letting users send Tweets from within a third party website? Is there another component to it that actually shows tweets and "top links"
And with regards to the tweets, it's actually the content under the "Top links on this topic" that I'm trying to figure out - how are the links under that heading determined?
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The Huffington site uses a twitter javascript snippet called Twitter Anywhere. You can learn more about it here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/anywhere/welcome
The topic in this case is a search for "Jennifer Lopez". The traffic is so insanely high that even if you appeared in the block, it is highly unlikely your tweet would be present during a crawl. The current block shows 1 tweet from 2 days ago, 1 from 1 day ago, 1 from 12 hours ago, and the rest are under 3 minutes old.
J-Lo is very hot right now and seems to be receiving over 20 tweets per minute. The block only holds a set number of tweets so they are flying in and out very fast. This page is likely indexed and reindexed very quickly so even if your tweet was captured on a crawl, it would likely be gone very fast.
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Sorry Ryan, I should've included a URL, here's the one from the example in my screenshot
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I checked the site's front page and a category page and did not see the widget. Can you offer a URL to a page with the widget?
Twitter does have top tweets based on trending volume, and my guess is that's what is being displayed. I would also imagine these are national or international categories as twitter can display top tweets for a given area.
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