SpiderDuck: The Realtime Twitter Spider

Nov 18, 2011 - 8:30 am 3 by
Filed Under Spiders

Twitter SpiderDuckTwitter has unveiled their URL fetcher, which they named SpiderDuck.

What does it do?

SpiderDuck is a service at Twitter that fetches all URLs shared in Tweets in real-time, parses the downloaded content to extract metadata of interest and makes that metadata available for other Twitter services to consume within seconds.

Twitter says this helps them improve the following Twitter services:

  • Search to index resolved URLs and improve relevance
  • Clients to display certain types of media, such as photos, next to the Tweet
  • Tweet Button to count how many times each URL has been shared on Twitter
  • Trust & Safety to aid in detecting malware and spam
  • Analytics to surface a variety of aggregated statistics about links shared on Twitter

A WebmasterWorld thread has some webmasters sharing the useragents and such found in their log files.

Anyway, for more details see the Twitter post.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Image credit: Yayayoyo & YorkBerlin / ShutterStock.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Follow

Search Video Recaps

 
Google Core Update Rumbling, Manual Actions FAQs, Core Web Vitals Updates, AI, Bing, Ads & More - YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 2024

Mar 18, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Google Updates

Google Urges Patience As The March 2024 Core Update Continues To Rollout

Mar 18, 2024 - 7:51 am
Google

Official: Google Replaces Perspective Filter With Forums Filter

Mar 18, 2024 - 7:41 am
Google Maps

Google Business Profiles Now Offers Additional Review After Appeal Is Denied

Mar 18, 2024 - 7:31 am
Google Maps

EU Searchers Complaining About Google Maps Features Changes Related To DMA

Mar 18, 2024 - 7:21 am
Google

Google Showing Fewer Sitelinks Within Search

Mar 18, 2024 - 7:11 am
Previous Story: Louis Daguerre Google Logo