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Ask HN: Want a startup idea? Sort my Twitter's stream
I follow 170 people, and there are 88 people who follow me.
Whenever I open up my twitter, I get a stream of [re]tweets which I have no time to read, let alone click on the links see what the heck:
"#nodjs #opensource #awesome #ipad #3d http://t.co/X3sZ3 #instapaper"
is all about.
What I usually do, is looking quickly at the 10-20 newest tweets, see if there is anything interesting or not.
This way, I miss at least 95% of the tweets in my stream, but what else can I do?
I think I am not the only person who have this problem, I think this applies far beyond twitter, and relevant to the way we are going to consume [social] media in the near future while trying to get some things done, build some things and deliver them from time to time.
The signal vs noise ratio is just getting bigger (on the noise side) and there is not yet proven technology to filter that noise and show us only what we want.
- jefflinwood 15y agoWhat if you logged into "MySuperDuperTwitterSummary.com" and everytime you hit your home page there, it gave you a summary of everything you missed since the last time you hit the home page, organized in a one-page, above the fold format. Links at the bottom would take you to previous reports. The challenge would be two things - on the back end, summarization/threading/categorization and then on the front end presenting an effective information design. I think you could get 90% of the way on the backend by leveraging hashtags. Anybody know of something like this that already exists? I have to confess I am completely swamped by Twitter and don't keep up either.
- thewordpainter 15y agoYou're hitting on a point that I've touched on before. For the most part Facebook's search is pretty weak, but I've had a number of times where I have specifically searched for keywords within my friends (e.g. who is going to a certain festival). Hashtags are a great thing that came out of Twitter...and now I'm just surprised twitter hasn't implemented a way to sort/recall certain mentions in your feed. Anybody want to step up?
- jeffool 15y agoI mostly keep up with my stream as a part of my wake up ritual, but Twitter does have problems. One important question, however, is how much room Twitter gives you to change things. There was a mention a few days ago saying Twitter has rules about what you can do. Two obvious changes I'd like to see? 1. The ability to search my own history and that of my friends for when I want to find a link someone posted a week ago about whatever. 2. A better way to view conversations. Maybe vertical, going down as the conversation progresses, with new branches coming in as new people contribute. All I know now is when a flurry begins, making sense of it in one timeline (with broken reply links from shoddy and experimental clients) and not necessarily following everyone in the convo to begin with, is a pain.
- dtwwtd 15y agoAn open source project called ThinkUp is trying to do something similar to this. However, right now you have to host your own copy. http://thinkupapp.com/ http://thinkupapp.com/
- profitbaron 15y agohttp://www.my6sense.com/ http://www.my6sense.com/
- crasshopper 15y agoThey are popular so I tried it, but I didn't find their sorting helpful. And their login process is annoying.
- combiclickwise 15y agoDoes this help? http://www.readevery.com/ http://www.readevery.com/
- pokoleo 15y agoI believe that there is a chrome extension for this. If you can't reply (and I can't find it myself), I'll make it for you. Edit: to clarify, I believe that there is a chrome extension that does this inside twitter.com