Why no topics?

Our first FAQ – “Why did my topics list disappear / shrink?”

This one is simple. Friending Topics looks at recent tweets from people you follow and looks for patterns – if it finds none, it reports none – if it finds lots it reports lots.

Now the question is what do we mean by ‘recently’? We’re testing this at the moment – the challenge is that some people see two tweets an hour, some 2,000. Until we get a feel for the flow of your particular twitter timeline we’ll over/under estimate what ‘recently’ means for you and might produce an over long or over short topics list.

Hopefully we’re pretty close for most users.

As we scale up we are also artificially limiting the number of tweets we consider when calculating the reports. This may affect the reports for people following high numbers of accounts. If you think that might be happening to you and want the limit lifted tweet me and I’ll check what’s going on.