Querying strategy for @NiemanLabFuego tweets?

[scarothers]

Hiya. I've been having some fun setting up OpenFuego instances, and have a question about the Twitter account @NiemanLabFuego

I've always really found that account useful, so want to set one up in conjunction with my Fuego pages.

My question is: How often do you query to get the right mix of tweets? How many does it request?

I have a cron job set up that, every half hour, looks for the 1 most popular link over the past 6 hours, and if it's new, tweets that out. (Scoring, metadata set to true). It's ok, but seems like it's not quite right ...

Would love to know how the official account queries! Thanks for any info.

[jbenton]

Hi Sara! @phelps coded that up, so I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it's triggered whenever a link is in the top 3 of the past 24 hours. (I feel quite confident about the top 3 part, not as much about the 24 hours part.)

[scarothers]

Thanks for the info! I tried that over the past few days, seems like it's on the right track. I'm still getting a lot of links over a 24-hour period that break into the top three (so that means more tweets than the Nieman Lab version, which seems to dull the importance of each one, if that makes sense.). Makes me think it's symptom of the universe I'm following, so am going to try tweaking that.