Determining message prominence

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a server system and from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a request that the server system deliver to the computing device textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging system, each particular post of at least some of the posts being associated with (i) a geographical place of posting from which the particular post is determined to have been authored, and (ii) a temporal age that corresponds to a time that the particular post was authored;
• identifying, by the server system and for each particular post, a value that represents a geographical distance from a location that is associated with the computing device to the geographical place of posting for the particular post;
• determining, by the server system and for each particular post, a score for the particular post, the score being based on at least:
• (iii) the value that represents the geographical distance to the geographical place of posting for the particular post, and (iv) the temporal age of the particular post;
• and
• providing, by the server system and to the computing device for each particular post, an indication of the score for the particular post, so as to cause the computing device to display an indication of each particular post and visibly indicate a prominence of each particular post, the indication of prominence of each particular post being based at least in part on the indication of the score for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts having different visible indications of prominence based at least in part on the at least two particular posts having different indications of scores, wherein
• the geographical place of posting for each particular post is a venue that an author of the particular post identified with user input as a posting location,
• the score for the particular post is further based at least in part on a score of the venue that the author of the particular post identified as being the posting location, and
• the score of the venue is based at least in part on a quantity of users of the messaging service that have identified the venue as a posting location.

A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

• determining, by a mobile computing device, a location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device, user input for causing the mobile computing device to display indications of textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging service;
• submitting, by the mobile computing device and to a server system, (i) a request for the posts and (ii) the location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device and from the server system, for each particular post of at least a plurality of the posts, an indication of a prominence of the particular post, the received indication of prominence having been determined by the server system for each particular post based at least in part on a time that an author submitted the particular post to the messaging service and based at least in part on a distance between the location that is associated with the mobile computing device and a location that is associated with the particular post;
• and
• displaying, by the mobile computing device, an indication of each particular post and the indication of the prominence for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts, including a first post and a second post, having different displayed indications of prominence such that the mobile computing device displays the first and second posts in first and second positions, respectively, based at least in part on the indications of prominence.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable devices including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving, at a server system and from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a request that the server system deliver to the computing device textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging system, each particular post of at least some of the posts being associated with (i) a geographical place of posting from which the particular post is determined to have been authored, and (ii) a temporal age that corresponds to a time that the particular post was authored;
• identifying, by the server system and for each particular post, a value that represents a geographical distance from a location that is associated with the computing device to the geographical place of posting for the particular post;
• determining, by the server system and for each particular post, a score for the particular post, the score being based on at least:
• (iii) the value that represents the geographical distance to the geographical place of posting for the particular post, and (iv) the temporal age of the particular post;
• and
• providing, by the server system and to the computing device for each particular post, an indication of the score for the particular post, so as to cause the computing device to display an indication of each particular post and visibly indicate a prominence of each particular post, the indication of prominence of each particular post being based at least in part on the indication of the score for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts, including a first post and a second post, having different visible indications of prominence based at least in part on the at least two particular posts having different indications of scores, the first and second posts being displayed by the computing device in first and second positions, respectively, based at least in part on the different indications of scores between the posts.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processors on a mobile computing device;
• and
• one or more computer-readable devices including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• determining, by the mobile computing device, a location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device, user input for causing the mobile computing device to display indications of textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging service;
• submitting, by the mobile computing device and to a server system, (i) a request for the posts and (ii) the location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device and from the server system, for each particular post of at least a plurality of the posts, an indication of a prominence of the particular post, the received indication of prominence having been determined by the server system for each particular post based at least in part on a time that an author submitted the particular post to the messaging service and based at least in part on a distance between the location that is associated with the mobile computing device and a location that is associated with the particular post;
• and
• displaying, by the mobile computing device, an indication of each particular post and the indication of the prominence for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts, including a first post and a second post, having different displayed indications of prominence such that the mobile computing device displays the first and second posts in first and second positions, respectively, based at least in part on the indications of prominence.

One or more computer-readable devices including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, at a server system and from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a request that the server system deliver to the computing device textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging system, each particular post of at least some of the posts being associated with (i) a geographical place of posting from which the particular post is determined to have been authored, and (ii) a temporal age that corresponds to a time that the particular post was authored;
• identifying, by the server system and for each particular post, a value that represents a geographical distance from a location that is associated with the computing device to the geographical place of posting for the particular post;
• determining, by the server system and for each particular post, a score for the particular post, the score being based on at least:
• (iii) the value that represents the geographical distance to the geographical place of posting for the particular post, and (iv) the temporal age of the particular post;
• and
• providing, by the server system and to the computing device for each particular post, an indication of the score for the particular post, so as to cause the computing device to display an indication of each particular post and visibly indicate a prominence of each particular post, the indication of prominence of each particular post being based at least in part on the indication of the score for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts, including a first post and a second post, having different visible indications of prominence based at least in part on the at least two particular posts having different indications of scores, the first and second posts being displayed by the computing device in first and second positions, respectively, based at least in part on the different indications of scores between the posts.

One or more computer-readable devices including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• determining, by the mobile computing device, a location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device, user input for causing the mobile computing device to display indications of textual posts that a plurality of authors have submitted to a messaging service;
• submitting, by the mobile computing device and to a server system, (i) a request for the posts and (ii) the location that is associated with the mobile computing device;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device and from the server system, for each particular post of at least a plurality of the posts, an indication of a prominence of the particular post, the received indication of prominence having been determined by the server system for each particular post based at least in part on a time that an author submitted the particular post to the messaging service and based at least in part on a distance between the location that is associated with the mobile computing device and a location that is associated with the particular post;
• and
• displaying, by the mobile computing device, an indication of each particular post and the indication of the prominence for each particular post, at least two of the particular posts, including a first post and a second post, having different displayed indications of prominence such that the mobile computing device displays the first and second posts in first and second positions, respectively, based at least in part on the indications of prominence.