How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content

I am wondering about author ranking. Considering factors like the retweet, which is overly used by some, autogenerated/scheduled tweets, where a producer of UGC uses a service to send out the same set of tweets during the course of the day, and the proper use of protocols/microformats, such as the hashtag or semantic protocols developed by a few- like the “has#” tag, can we find ways to assign value in which many feel that there is simply to much noise? Retweets are great, but which author is assigned what value, and if your percentage of retweets is greater than original content, does this effect the score? For myself, I begin to tune authors who are too heavy in the use of other content. Scheduled tweets have a purpose, but over use causes other users to ignore them, because they have read it before. When a new tweet is added to the cycle, they do not read it. The hashta...

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