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PG Got Twitter So I Made Hacker News For Tweets
Not sure how practical it is, but it was fun to make!
- vijaydev 16y agohow does this work? Tweets by ppl following pg?
- dkasper 16y agoNo, submit tweets just like Hacker News. Retweets vote up, comments are @replied to the person.
- duck 16y agoShouldn't the links within the tweet be clickable?
- dkasper 16y agoProbably, couldn't get everything done in one night :)
- adrianwaj 16y agosome ideas to think about: - on http://celebritytweetarchive.com/ http://celebritytweetarchive.com/ users can leave comments under tweets - also seen on tweetmeme. If you can get people commenting, that'd be massive. - there isn't a twitter account to follow with the submissions. Then place an additional link back the comments page in those tweets. - have user icons - count submission points by the number of rewteets made on site, and generally by the site's users off-site, or just number of retweets (or an upvote) - you could just create a generic 'digg for tweets' - then have a bookmarklet that a person clicks when viewing a single tweet to submit the tweet, or toggle into the site. - perhaps when a tweet is submitted, it becomes a favorite, or when it is favorited, it is submitted. - split the site into different sections, eg see http://favstar.fm http://favstar.fm
- imack 16y agoI'm trying the "digg for tweets" thing (http://laughlitm.us http://laughlitm.us), its hard to gain traction because its hard to get a viral loop going without needlessly injecting the site into retweets. I am happy with how people can submit though.
- adrianwaj 16y agoThat's a niche site, how could you broaden it out, though? Another interesting idea, would be for submitters to authenticate with such a site, and have it check their "retweets_of_me" "retweeted_by_me" and "retweeted_to_me" aiming to surface what's important. Tweetmeme has a comedy channel, I wonder how they get their tweets. http://tweetmeme.com/category/comedy http://tweetmeme.com/category/comedy - but the tweet is not initially shown, only the link and its extracted content. Is there a twitter site aimed at crafting the best possible lists in certain categories?
- imack 16y agoThe idea of counting favourites or retweets is actually the idea I was working against. I've always figured that makes it easy to find already easy to find tweets. To say nothing of "retweeted alot" != "funny", even if its from a comedian feed. I would assume tweetmeme flag comedian feeds and counts retweet links. I believe there are list sites, but the focus is on the feed rather than the tweet.
- Yzupnick 16y agoLike the idea, but the blue text on white is hard on the eyes. Maybe a black on gray color scheme like HN?
- kgosser 16y agoWhat's Paul Graham's twitter handle?
- amirmc 16y ago@paulg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640530 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640530
- jhrobert 16y agoVery nice indeed. Maybe you could also monitor some #hackertweet hash tag and include the matching tweets. That would be convenient to submit a tweet from any client, not just yours.
- dallasrpi 16y agoI like the idea, but next time I visit how do I see the new tweets because they arent ordered chronologically? With reddit and hackernews I usually click through the link and next time I visit I will see the different color link text so I can quickly see what is new. Just something to think about.
- swilliams 16y agoWhy does it need write access?
- DotSauce 16y agoIt says comments will be posted to Twitter.
- DotSauce 16y agoI like it. Please keep on making it better. Hope you don't mind constructive criticism. Here are some of my thoughts: - Individual tweet pages are linking to themselves - Your title is plural, your domain is not - Make Tweets plain text with parsed URLs and have separate link to comment thread - Need a confirmation box or some disclosure before ReTweets are actually done - I would like to vote, but not ReTweet in some cases (possibly for 'bookmarking') - Integrate ability to follow the publisher