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Nuzzel is going away for now

35 points by rathertrue 5y ago

flakiness 5y ago
I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link aggregation service however, that can be something loved from people who stay away from the timelines. I'll maintain a lukewarm hope there.
- spullara 5y ago
  You can do an advanced search against your follow list and filter out replies and only tweets with links. Might be useful for you.
  - flakiness 5y ago
    Interesting. Not clear how "against your follow list" works though. Any tip is appreciated! https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
    - spullara 5y ago
      Dunno. Probably in the post request. But it shows up on the main search page as an option. https://i.imgur.com/UIemCg6.png https://i.imgur.com/UIemCg6.png
- PostHeat 5y ago
  I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup https://postheat.com https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use case?
  - 1cvmask 5y ago
    I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.
  - flakiness 5y ago
    It's for myself finding interesting links. Not for building audience or anything. Probably not a target user of your startup.
  - OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
    I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc. Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate this feels like trying to get the much promised Flash level of interactivity out of HTML5. I am sad Nuzzel is being shitcanned. Somthing good has been lost.
- EricE 5y ago
  Yup - this is what I liked about Nuzzel, especially as political rhetoric in particular continues to get overheated on Twitter. Ultimately I found ignoring Twitter to be even better. I surface more interesting stuff on sites like this one than Twitter. It wasn’t always like that, but Twitter has been moving from being focused on a way to discover ideas to an outrage generating machine in the soulless chase for engagement at all costs for some time now. It’s rather disgusting so I no longer help feed the beast and perpetuate the problem. And I have a lot less stress in my life as well - win win!
- Siira 5y ago
  You should be able to use some twitter scraping library to scrape tweets of your followees. Add some RSS feeds, and then sort the links based on repetition count, and email yourself the top 10 each week.
tedyoung 5y ago
I'm a bit user of Nuzzel and this isn't entirely unexpected, but I'm disappointed. Nuzzel allowed me to catch up on links from my Twitter stream without me getting caught up in infinite scrolling and distracting conversations. It didn't replace Twitter, but let me use it in a different way. Nuzzel replaced a similar -- but much better -- tool that I can no longer remember, after it shut down as well. At this points I'll probably have to create yet another side-project to do what Nuzzel was doing for me.
- edoceo 5y ago
  n8n.io might help here, low/no code solutions for things like this
freediver 5y ago
Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the noise of Twitter in one click? And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above or way below my pay grade.
- Grimm1 5y ago
  "Twitter has spun up an internal team of Nuzzel acolytes whose goal is to take the best of the Nuzzel experience and build it directly into Twitter."
  - pavel_lishin 5y ago
    My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.
p5v 5y ago
I know someone working on a sustainable alternative in this space. Still in the trying-to-figure-out-the-market-size phase, so any input is appreciated: https://tally.so/r/w54RP3 https://tally.so/r/w54RP3

35 points by rathertrue 5y ago

I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link aggregation service however, that can be something loved from people who stay away from the timelines. I'll maintain a lukewarm hope there.

spullara 5y ago
You can do an advanced search against your follow list and filter out replies and only tweets with links. Might be useful for you.
- flakiness 5y ago
  Interesting. Not clear how "against your follow list" works though. Any tip is appreciated! https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
  - spullara 5y ago
    Dunno. Probably in the post request. But it shows up on the main search page as an option. https://i.imgur.com/UIemCg6.png https://i.imgur.com/UIemCg6.png
PostHeat 5y ago
I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup https://postheat.com https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use case?
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.
- flakiness 5y ago
  It's for myself finding interesting links. Not for building audience or anything. Probably not a target user of your startup.
- OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
  I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc. Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate this feels like trying to get the much promised Flash level of interactivity out of HTML5. I am sad Nuzzel is being shitcanned. Somthing good has been lost.
EricE 5y ago
Yup - this is what I liked about Nuzzel, especially as political rhetoric in particular continues to get overheated on Twitter. Ultimately I found ignoring Twitter to be even better. I surface more interesting stuff on sites like this one than Twitter. It wasn’t always like that, but Twitter has been moving from being focused on a way to discover ideas to an outrage generating machine in the soulless chase for engagement at all costs for some time now. It’s rather disgusting so I no longer help feed the beast and perpetuate the problem. And I have a lot less stress in my life as well - win win!
Siira 5y ago
You should be able to use some twitter scraping library to scrape tweets of your followees. Add some RSS feeds, and then sort the links based on repetition count, and email yourself the top 10 each week.

tedyoung 5y ago

I'm a bit user of Nuzzel and this isn't entirely unexpected, but I'm disappointed. Nuzzel allowed me to catch up on links from my Twitter stream without me getting caught up in infinite scrolling and distracting conversations. It didn't replace Twitter, but let me use it in a different way. Nuzzel replaced a similar -- but much better -- tool that I can no longer remember, after it shut down as well. At this points I'll probably have to create yet another side-project to do what Nuzzel was doing for me.

edoceo 5y ago
n8n.io might help here, low/no code solutions for things like this

freediver 5y ago

Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the noise of Twitter in one click? And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above or way below my pay grade.

Grimm1 5y ago
"Twitter has spun up an internal team of Nuzzel acolytes whose goal is to take the best of the Nuzzel experience and build it directly into Twitter."
- pavel_lishin 5y ago
  My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.

p5v 5y ago

I know someone working on a sustainable alternative in this space. Still in the trying-to-figure-out-the-market-size phase, so any input is appreciated: https://tally.so/r/w54RP3 https://tally.so/r/w54RP3