How Google Ranks Tweets in Search Results?

    Google started to display real-time results in addition to the regular top 10 pages on their search result pages. The real-time results are meant to offer web searchers access to brand new news items as fast as possible. The main element of Google's real-time results are tweets. Tweets are the real-time messages that Twitter users post on Twitter.com.

PageRank for tweets

    Google's PageRank algorithm looks at the link structure of a web page. The more websites link to a website and the more websites link to the linking websites the more relevant is the linked website.
    Tweets are not about links but about followers. On Twitter.com, people "follow" the comments of other Twitter users. The more followers a Twitter user has, the more reputable are the tweets of that user. If Twitter users that have many followers follow another Twitter user then these users will have a larger impact on the reputation of that user.

Additional filters and algorithms

    The follower reputation rank is only one of Google's methods to rank tweets

Hashtags

    Twitter users often use "hashtags" in their comments. Hashtags are symbols that start with a # followed by a popular topic, for example #earthquake. If such a hashtag is included in a tweet, the tweet will show up in the real-time results when other Twitter users click the hashtag's topic word elsewhere on the site.

Spam

    While hashtags can be useful to maximize the exposure of a tweet, they are also often abused for spamming. The wrong hashtags can serve as a red flag that triggers Google's spam filters.
 
The Signal in the Noise

    There can be thousands of tweets that contain a very popular word such as "Mikel". To find the relevant tweets, Google looks for "signals in the noise". Such a signal can be an increasing number of tweets that mention other words near mentions of "Mikel", for example "newyork police". The tweets with the signals will be chosen for the real-time results.

    The problem with Google's real-time results is that they don't last. The time and efforts that you have to invest in getting listed in Google's real-time results is better spent on optimization for Google's regular results. If your website is listed in Google's regular results, it will usually stay there for a long time.

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