Comments on: Twing Adds Brand Monitoring Features to its Forum Search http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:49:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dude http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-301449 Dude Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:12:00 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-301449 Hi Pal, After seeing your comment I tried OMGILI and I wasn't that impressed with it. Needs some improvement to catch up with Twing. Hi Pal,

After seeing your comment I tried OMGILI and I wasn’t that impressed with it. Needs some improvement to catch up with Twing.

]]> By: Scott http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-300915 Scott Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:41:57 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-300915 "It was using 80% of our total bandwidth by itself, although it was following the robots.txt rules. Just way too many visits." We think this was a rare occurrence, (which was fixed). If someone - tony - is having an issue, contact us and we'll deal with it. Twingbot is designed to be bandwidth friendly and gets tested on multiple forum platforms to ensure this. If Twingbot screwed up, we take it seriously and get it fixed. Also remember that once a forum is first added, (to any search engine), doing initial http GETS, etc. to get historical data for indexing may take a little while. But once done, typical updates are more trivial for most sites. If there's some particular problem the 'bot has run into on a particular site, there may be some esoteric issue for a forum type we missed. If you could let us know which board you're on, we'll look into the particulars more deeply. More details, at least as much as I can share, are in the discussion thread on the FPU site Tony links to above. “It was using 80% of our total bandwidth by itself, although it was following the robots.txt rules. Just way too many visits.”

We think this was a rare occurrence, (which was fixed). If someone – tony – is having an issue, contact us and we’ll deal with it.

Twingbot is designed to be bandwidth friendly and gets tested on multiple forum platforms to ensure this. If Twingbot screwed up, we take it seriously and get it fixed. Also remember that once a forum is first added, (to any search engine), doing initial http GETS, etc. to get historical data for indexing may take a little while. But once done, typical updates are more trivial for most sites.

If there’s some particular problem the ‘bot has run into on a particular site, there may be some esoteric issue for a forum type we missed. If you could let us know which board you’re on, we’ll look into the particulars more deeply.

More details, at least as much as I can share, are in the discussion thread on the FPU site Tony links to above.

]]> By: Tony D http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-300887 Tony D Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:11:00 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-300887 I wouldn't fully rely on them either. The colossal amount of bandwidth that their Twingbot sent in our direction led to a site I'm involved with banning it. It was using 80% of our total bandwidth by itself, although it was following the robots.txt rules. Just way too many visits. Similar problems described by some posters <a href="http://www.forumpostersunion.com/showthread.php?t=3328" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I wouldn’t fully rely on them either. The colossal amount of bandwidth that their Twingbot sent in our direction led to a site I’m involved with banning it.

It was using 80% of our total bandwidth by itself, although it was following the robots.txt rules. Just way too many visits.

Similar problems described by some posters here.

]]> By: It may be too late to save the planet, as we know it « The Analytics Guru http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-300871 It may be too late to save the planet, as we know it « The Analytics Guru Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:46:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-300871 [...] decided to use Radian6 and a new search engine called Twing ( see Twing Adds Brand Monitoring Features to its Forum Search in Web Worker Daily) to see if I could find influentials in this discussion of what to do about [...] [...] decided to use Radian6 and a new search engine called Twing ( see Twing Adds Brand Monitoring Features to its Forum Search in Web Worker Daily) to see if I could find influentials in this discussion of what to do about [...]

]]> By: Pal http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-300866 Pal Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:24:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-300866 Hey Scott, Did you try Omgili (Oh My God I Love It)? They are a superb discussions search engine (forums, QnA sites, newsgroups, mailing list etc...) and they also have Omgili Buzz and Omgili Buzz Graphs. Very cool! htpp://www.omgili.com http://buzz.omgili.com/ http://buzz.omgili.com/graphs.html Hey Scott,
Did you try Omgili (Oh My God I Love It)? They are a superb discussions search engine (forums, QnA sites, newsgroups, mailing list etc…) and they also have Omgili Buzz and Omgili Buzz Graphs. Very cool!

htpp://www.omgili.com
http://buzz.omgili.com/
http://buzz.omgili.com/graphs.html

]]> By: Ari Newman http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/twing-adds-brand-monitoring-features-to-its-forum-search/#comment-300860 Ari Newman Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:15:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3103#comment-300860 Hi Scott, thanks for the mention of Filtrbox. Our service also monitors Twitter and Friendfeed (more coming soon!). Twing looks like a nice compliment for Forum coverage. Hi Scott, thanks for the mention of Filtrbox. Our service also monitors Twitter and Friendfeed (more coming soon!). Twing looks like a nice compliment for Forum coverage.

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