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I had an idea, which could fit in with a future phase of this app. Grabbing links from twitter lists and reposting with page title, link, and underlying tweet.

I had an idea, which could fit in with a future phase of this app. Grabbing links from twitter lists and reposting with page title, link, and underlying tweet. It's about surfacing what's hot in certain user circles, for example, you might find twitter lists concerning the topics already displayed on Firetweets. The final display might end up somthing like: http://hackerbra.in/links http://hackerbra.in/links -- some lists of interest http://twitter.com/tlrobinson/hackernews http://twitter.com/tlrobinson/hackernews http://twitter.com/DHS/hacker-news http://twitter.com/DHS/hacker-news.

iampims 16y ago
That's an interesting idea. Somewhere on my hard drive lingers an app that grabs all the links from your Twitter timeline and is supposed to send you a daily digest. I hadn't thought of including the tweet itself, but it can't hurt to have some context and hadn't thought of using lists either. Before thinking about phase two, I'd like to grow the site a little bit, but I will certainly keep this in mind. Thanks for the suggestion :)
- adrianwaj 16y ago
  Good for you. Check out http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ as well. Also, check out this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556280 -- might be a new app for you to do..
  - iampims 16y ago
    I wasn't aware that Tweetmeme has an API. Might be really handy! Thanks :)
    - adrianwaj 16y ago
      If you end up with @usernames - consider linking to my site http://twitya.com/#username http://twitya.com/#username
timhastings 16y ago
Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing, e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs
- adrianwaj 16y ago
  Nice, didn't know about it. The black background, small writing and grey text kills me. But I've got a new link on Twitya for any username to tagwalk. Thanks.
  - timhastings 16y ago
    Cool, thanks for the link. Sorry if the colour scheme made your eyes bleed - I'm still experimenting with that. :-)
- iampims 16y ago
  That's really interesting. I started firetweets by tracking only node.js links. I really like the data driven approach you've taken. Do you plan on expanding to other topics? edit: You already do track other topics. That's really cool!
  - timhastings 16y ago
    Thank you. It already works for any hashtags or usernames that it encounters, here's #sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub
    - iampims 16y ago
      I'm impressed. From what I've read on your blog, you have gathered a massive amount of data. How do you fight spam?
      - timhastings 16y ago
        It's many pronged approach. User timelines are loaded for "reputable" users, (see blog for computing reputation) and search input is used with primative bayesian filtering. In my experience, I have found Tweet source (web, Tweetdeck, API etc.) to be one of the most effective quality/authenticity indicators.

iampims 16y ago

That's an interesting idea. Somewhere on my hard drive lingers an app that grabs all the links from your Twitter timeline and is supposed to send you a daily digest. I hadn't thought of including the tweet itself, but it can't hurt to have some context and hadn't thought of using lists either. Before thinking about phase two, I'd like to grow the site a little bit, but I will certainly keep this in mind. Thanks for the suggestion :)

adrianwaj 16y ago
Good for you. Check out http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ as well. Also, check out this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556280 -- might be a new app for you to do..
- iampims 16y ago
  I wasn't aware that Tweetmeme has an API. Might be really handy! Thanks :)
  - adrianwaj 16y ago
    If you end up with @usernames - consider linking to my site http://twitya.com/#username http://twitya.com/#username

timhastings 16y ago

Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing, e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs

adrianwaj 16y ago
Nice, didn't know about it. The black background, small writing and grey text kills me. But I've got a new link on Twitya for any username to tagwalk. Thanks.
- timhastings 16y ago
  Cool, thanks for the link. Sorry if the colour scheme made your eyes bleed - I'm still experimenting with that. :-)
iampims 16y ago
That's really interesting. I started firetweets by tracking only node.js links. I really like the data driven approach you've taken. Do you plan on expanding to other topics? edit: You already do track other topics. That's really cool!
- timhastings 16y ago
  Thank you. It already works for any hashtags or usernames that it encounters, here's #sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub
  - iampims 16y ago
    I'm impressed. From what I've read on your blog, you have gathered a massive amount of data. How do you fight spam?
    - timhastings 16y ago
      It's many pronged approach. User timelines are loaded for "reputable" users, (see blog for computing reputation) and search input is used with primative bayesian filtering. In my experience, I have found Tweet source (web, Tweetdeck, API etc.) to be one of the most effective quality/authenticity indicators.