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by joosters 4658 days ago
A strange example. Does the author really think hashtagifying the word 'content' has improved the tweet in some way? Do they expect people to be searching Twitter for #content and getting some useful results?
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Probably not, but he did disclaim that it was pretty naive and could be improved in many ways. I think it's a pretty darn good first pass. That particular issues comes about from tagging words that are common in the target text without reference to whether or not that's actually significant- i.e., whether it's common in the text just because it's a common word overall, rather than because it's actually an indication of the text subject. That should be pretty easy to fix by comparing with an English word frequency list.
Agree. Maybe some TF-IDF solution.
Contrast with the un-hashtagged version: https://twitter.com/search?q=content