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Review my project: TweetSip, Reddit/HN for your Twitter links

22 points by jamiequint 18y ago

zonemash 18y ago
What is the difference between this and actual Twitter?
- jamiequint 18y ago
  This is just the links, not all tweets. Also discussion is with all people who have seen the story in their feed instead of just the people you follow.
kaiuhl 18y ago
This needs a public-facing page for everyone's votes (wait a minute…). Let them see and interact before allowing access. Right now, nobody will use it because the splash page gives no indication of what the actual application is like or how much activity is behind the login wall.
- dev_done 18y ago
  You're kinda right here...
- jamiequint 18y ago
  What would you suggest for the public page. Internally everyone's page is different. Maybe a screenshot?
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    Maybe make an account that follows people you consider interesting (celebrities, web thinkers, etc.), and show the results for that user.
- buugs 18y ago
  I agree that a screenshot of some sort would be nice even if it is just generic links posted by celebrities and the such. Another interesting feature to implement if it isn't already (I don't use twitter so I can't really try this out) would be to use a similar system to digg/delicious/hackernews/reddit in showing how many people have posted a certain link (i.e. upvoted) or having the ability to sort by popularity of links
sobriquet 18y ago
Tried logging in... Twitter said somebody already used that token. Then it loaded a page with "OK, you've denied Tweetsip access to interact with your account!" Something broken here...
- jamiequint 18y ago
  Interesting, perhaps a twitter oAuth issue? I'm using the stock version of the twitter-auth plugin http://github.com/mbleigh/twitter-auth/tree/master http://github.com/mbleigh/twitter-auth/tree/master
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    I would ask the twitter api list about this http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
  - colins_pride 18y ago
    I realize this is a bit obvious, but you have to find a way to expand the project beyond twitter. Otherwise they change the api and you're smoked.
thorax 18y ago
I really like the idea. You need to work on icon display, though because some are huge: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png and for long tweets, it's causing the lines to wrap oddly. I think it makes sense to have the default page show the site in action (below a big "log in" banner). Perhaps displaying the top 100 Twitterers? http://wefollow.com/top http://wefollow.com/top
- jamiequint 18y ago
  This should be fixed now, try a Shift+refresh to update CSS
  - thorax 18y ago
    The large pic stuff works great now. Still getting the "too much text causes the floats to misalign" problem sometimes: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png
Alex3917 18y ago
Interesting. Did you make this after Fred Wilson asked for it a couple days ago?
- jamiequint 18y ago
  I was actually started making it a week or so before he said that. Seeing his tweet made me finish it sooner than I probably would have otherwise though.
thorax 18y ago
The site seems not to recognize URLs that use IDN and/or unicode (e.g. http://✿.ws/beauty http://✿.ws/beauty ) Here's a list of lots of Twitters users using some of them from our service, tinyarro.ws: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%9E%AF.ws+OR+%E2%9E%94.ws+OR+%E2%9E%9E.ws+OR+%E2%9E%BD.ws+OR+%E2%9E%B9.ws+OR+%E2%9C%A9.ws+OR+%E2%9C%BF.ws+OR+%E2%9D%A5.ws+OR+%E2%80%BA.ws+OR+%E2%8C%98.ws++OR+%E2%98%81.ws http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%9E%AF...
snewe 18y ago
So points = number of tweets of a link? If so, it is HN/Reddit without the voting.
- jamiequint 18y ago
  I debated myself over this. If someone tweets a link isn't an implicit vote (similar to voting on HN). I guess I should make it auto-voted up so you can't get double points (one for tweeting and one for voting up)
Pistos2 18y ago
Honestly, I am wary of anything that proxies credentials, and I agree with kaiuhl in that it is even less inviting due to lack of information or screenshots of whatever tweetsip might be. cf. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000953.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000953.html
- jamiequint 18y ago
  It doesn't proxy credentials, it uses oAuth.
  - Pistos2 17y ago
    Fair enough, but perhaps you should make that clearer ("[1] Log on at twitter.com") for the less swift among us like me. :)
qeorge 18y ago
I wasn't able to log in. I went to your site, clicked the "get started" button, and went to Twitter to log in. Once I logged into Twitter no link was given to go back to your app. I then tried going back to tweetsip.com and refreshing the page, but each time when I tried to continue I was again asked to log into Twitter. I could find no way to make it work. I'm using the Firefox alpha (Shiretoko), so it could be me. But I'd double-check the process after you've logged out of Twitter, cleared cookies and cache, etc. Sounds like a cool idea though.

22 points by jamiequint 18y ago

zonemash 18y ago

What is the difference between this and actual Twitter?

jamiequint 18y ago
This is just the links, not all tweets. Also discussion is with all people who have seen the story in their feed instead of just the people you follow.

kaiuhl 18y ago

This needs a public-facing page for everyone's votes (wait a minute…). Let them see and interact before allowing access. Right now, nobody will use it because the splash page gives no indication of what the actual application is like or how much activity is behind the login wall.

dev_done 18y ago
You're kinda right here...
jamiequint 18y ago
What would you suggest for the public page. Internally everyone's page is different. Maybe a screenshot?
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  Maybe make an account that follows people you consider interesting (celebrities, web thinkers, etc.), and show the results for that user.
buugs 18y ago
I agree that a screenshot of some sort would be nice even if it is just generic links posted by celebrities and the such. Another interesting feature to implement if it isn't already (I don't use twitter so I can't really try this out) would be to use a similar system to digg/delicious/hackernews/reddit in showing how many people have posted a certain link (i.e. upvoted) or having the ability to sort by popularity of links

sobriquet 18y ago

Tried logging in... Twitter said somebody already used that token. Then it loaded a page with "OK, you've denied Tweetsip access to interact with your account!" Something broken here...

jamiequint 18y ago
Interesting, perhaps a twitter oAuth issue? I'm using the stock version of the twitter-auth plugin http://github.com/mbleigh/twitter-auth/tree/master http://github.com/mbleigh/twitter-auth/tree/master
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  I would ask the twitter api list about this http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
- colins_pride 18y ago
  I realize this is a bit obvious, but you have to find a way to expand the project beyond twitter. Otherwise they change the api and you're smoked.

thorax 18y ago

I really like the idea. You need to work on icon display, though because some are huge: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png and for long tweets, it's causing the lines to wrap oddly. I think it makes sense to have the default page show the site in action (below a big "log in" banner). Perhaps displaying the top 100 Twitterers? http://wefollow.com/top http://wefollow.com/top

jamiequint 18y ago
This should be fixed now, try a Shift+refresh to update CSS
- thorax 18y ago
  The large pic stuff works great now. Still getting the "too much text causes the floats to misalign" problem sometimes: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png

Alex3917 18y ago

Interesting. Did you make this after Fred Wilson asked for it a couple days ago?

jamiequint 18y ago
I was actually started making it a week or so before he said that. Seeing his tweet made me finish it sooner than I probably would have otherwise though.

thorax 18y ago

The site seems not to recognize URLs that use IDN and/or unicode (e.g. http://✿.ws/beauty http://✿.ws/beauty ) Here's a list of lots of Twitters users using some of them from our service, tinyarro.ws: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%9E%AF.ws+OR+%E2%9E%94.ws+OR+%E2%9E%9E.ws+OR+%E2%9E%BD.ws+OR+%E2%9E%B9.ws+OR+%E2%9C%A9.ws+OR+%E2%9C%BF.ws+OR+%E2%9D%A5.ws+OR+%E2%80%BA.ws+OR+%E2%8C%98.ws++OR+%E2%98%81.ws http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%9E%AF...

snewe 18y ago

So points = number of tweets of a link? If so, it is HN/Reddit without the voting.

jamiequint 18y ago
I debated myself over this. If someone tweets a link isn't an implicit vote (similar to voting on HN). I guess I should make it auto-voted up so you can't get double points (one for tweeting and one for voting up)

Pistos2 18y ago

Honestly, I am wary of anything that proxies credentials, and I agree with kaiuhl in that it is even less inviting due to lack of information or screenshots of whatever tweetsip might be. cf. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000953.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000953.html

jamiequint 18y ago
It doesn't proxy credentials, it uses oAuth.
- Pistos2 17y ago
  Fair enough, but perhaps you should make that clearer ("[1] Log on at twitter.com") for the less swift among us like me. :)

qeorge 18y ago

I wasn't able to log in. I went to your site, clicked the "get started" button, and went to Twitter to log in. Once I logged into Twitter no link was given to go back to your app. I then tried going back to tweetsip.com and refreshing the page, but each time when I tried to continue I was again asked to log into Twitter. I could find no way to make it work. I'm using the Firefox alpha (Shiretoko), so it could be me. But I'd double-check the process after you've logged out of Twitter, cleared cookies and cache, etc. Sounds like a cool idea though.