The Trending Topics feature on Twitter.com still has considerable room for improvement.
Users have gamed Twitter’s search “ranking” system to promote their businesses in Twitter Trending Topics as well as inundate searchers with all sorts of spam from porn to “Get Rich Tweeting” scams.
Now comes illegal movie downloads.
With the recent release of Bruno and the upcoming release of the latest Harry Potter installment, content pirates have taken to setting up Twitter accounts and pushing their pirated movie copies via Trending Topics tweets.
Twitter Trending Topics
A Twitter search for Bruno produces the following search results:
Pirates Pushing Illegal Movie Downloads via Twitter
Spam alone may be the prevailing reason why real time search hasn’t yet become ready for prime time.
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