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Find out who your friends are following that you are not (on twitter).

21 points by epi0Bauqu 17y ago

epi0Bauqu 17y ago
Follow @duckduckgo then tweet '@duckduckgo diff' or '@duckduckgo diff -popular', which does something like... diff friends friends/friends | sort | uniq -c | sort -n I looked for this functionaliry last night (http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150 http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150) and again this morning, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. So I hacked it together myself! Updated: you need to follow @duckduckgo for it to work (so I can send you a DM).
- tdavis 17y ago
  Cool, though I must say your option naming bugs me. a flag like "-popular" suggests adding/using "popular", not removing it. An irrelevant nitpick, but I was compelled ;)
  - epi0Bauqu 17y ago
    Np. I was thinking -popular as in "minus popular."
prakash 17y ago
I was another person looking for this feature: https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057 https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057 I have been playing around with what Gabriel built, it's interesting, here are some of the queries I tried: - @duckduckgo diff - @duckduckgo diff -popular - @duckduckgo diff -25 - @duckduckgo diff -popular -10
niyazpk 17y ago
Why would a search engine do this as part of the same brand/domain? Can somebody tell me how this is related to the search engine?
- prakash 17y ago
  Quick q: Have you heard of duckduckgo before this post?
- paulgb 17y ago
  I think it's a clever trick to get more followers. It's a good idea, really.
sant0sk1 17y ago
I wrote a quick Ruby script awhile back which provides the same function (without having to follow @duckduckgo): http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/expand-your-twitter-network-in-less-than-15-lines-of-ruby/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/expand-your-twitter-netwo...
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- zackattack 17y ago
  It's still faster for me to follow @duckduckgo, DM, and then unfollow.
  - zackattack 17y ago
    Turns out my results were pretty disappointing. Sigh. I guess my extended network is just not that interesting.
    - epi0Bauqu 17y ago
      Did you try -popular and -popular -15 ?
      - zackattack 17y ago
        I already unfollowed. I'm not willing to try it multiple times. I am not an earlyvangelist. I could be persuaded if emailed a personal apology from the founder.
        sundeep 17y ago
        apology for what? He's providing a free service that you tried and didn't like.
        zackattack 17y ago
joshu 17y ago
I want to know about friends I may have missed. Specifically: Friends of mine's friends who are following me and I'm not following them back. (Defining "friend" as a reciprocal follow relationship)
- epi0Bauqu 17y ago
  Here's the first 25 (email me if you want the rest): @JasonCalacanis @kevinmarks @Scobleizer @loic @tonysphere @MParekh @brianoberkirch @dangillmor @steverubel @rafer @bijan @seth @LindaStone @iankennedy @DonMacAskill @VCMike @louisgray @Chad_Hurley @mathewi @austinhill @m2jr @vanderwal @fromedome @dburka @rklau
  - joshu 17y ago
    Exactly what I wanted. I don't recognize a few names, but those I do recognize are all people I know. Absurdly accurate.
onk 17y ago
The last time this type of thing came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801) I decided to use it to help me learn some shell scripting: join <(twidge lsfollowing | sort) <(twidge lsfollowers | sort) -v 1 I tried using diff and reducing the sorts but couldn't make it clean. I am a beginner. Any suggestions?

21 points by epi0Bauqu 17y ago

Follow @duckduckgo then tweet '@duckduckgo diff' or '@duckduckgo diff -popular', which does something like... diff friends friends/friends | sort | uniq -c | sort -n I looked for this functionaliry last night (http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150 http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150) and again this morning, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. So I hacked it together myself! Updated: you need to follow @duckduckgo for it to work (so I can send you a DM).

tdavis 17y ago
Cool, though I must say your option naming bugs me. a flag like "-popular" suggests adding/using "popular", not removing it. An irrelevant nitpick, but I was compelled ;)
- epi0Bauqu 17y ago
  Np. I was thinking -popular as in "minus popular."

prakash 17y ago

I was another person looking for this feature: https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057 https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057 I have been playing around with what Gabriel built, it's interesting, here are some of the queries I tried: - @duckduckgo diff - @duckduckgo diff -popular - @duckduckgo diff -25 - @duckduckgo diff -popular -10

niyazpk 17y ago

Why would a search engine do this as part of the same brand/domain? Can somebody tell me how this is related to the search engine?

prakash 17y ago
Quick q: Have you heard of duckduckgo before this post?
paulgb 17y ago
I think it's a clever trick to get more followers. It's a good idea, really.

sant0sk1 17y ago

I wrote a quick Ruby script awhile back which provides the same function (without having to follow @duckduckgo): http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/expand-your-twitter-network-in-less-than-15-lines-of-ruby/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/expand-your-twitter-netwo...

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zackattack 17y ago
It's still faster for me to follow @duckduckgo, DM, and then unfollow.
- zackattack 17y ago
  Turns out my results were pretty disappointing. Sigh. I guess my extended network is just not that interesting.
  - epi0Bauqu 17y ago
    Did you try -popular and -popular -15 ?
    - zackattack 17y ago
      I already unfollowed. I'm not willing to try it multiple times. I am not an earlyvangelist. I could be persuaded if emailed a personal apology from the founder.
      - sundeep 17y ago
        apology for what? He's providing a free service that you tried and didn't like.
        zackattack 17y ago

joshu 17y ago

I want to know about friends I may have missed. Specifically: Friends of mine's friends who are following me and I'm not following them back. (Defining "friend" as a reciprocal follow relationship)

epi0Bauqu 17y ago
Here's the first 25 (email me if you want the rest): @JasonCalacanis @kevinmarks @Scobleizer @loic @tonysphere @MParekh @brianoberkirch @dangillmor @steverubel @rafer @bijan @seth @LindaStone @iankennedy @DonMacAskill @VCMike @louisgray @Chad_Hurley @mathewi @austinhill @m2jr @vanderwal @fromedome @dburka @rklau
- joshu 17y ago
  Exactly what I wanted. I don't recognize a few names, but those I do recognize are all people I know. Absurdly accurate.

onk 17y ago

The last time this type of thing came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801) I decided to use it to help me learn some shell scripting: join <(twidge lsfollowing | sort) <(twidge lsfollowers | sort) -v 1 I tried using diff and reducing the sorts but couldn't make it clean. I am a beginner. Any suggestions?