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by alexro 16y ago
The number of conanobrien's "friends" is going up ...
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by alexro 16y ago
People have all sorts of problems, so restricting your efforts to a domain you care about is probably the most efficient approach
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Ask HN: looking for feedback - topytalk.com
3 points by alexro 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexro 16y ago
The Pareto principle in action: 20% tweeted more than 10 times, 80% less 10 and 41% (of total) not at all. So 20% of users are the true twitter user base, which is about 20 million.
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by alexro 16y ago
Reddit in fact now runs on Cassandra - the top nosql solution for a social website
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by alexro 16y ago
Twitter in fact sort of remove that limit. There is a change called annotations around the corner
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by alexro 16y ago
And more importantly, the hashtag has to be recognized by your followers as something beneficial to be associated with.
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by alexro 16y ago
Maybe I'll do some sort of analysis later, also I'm working on another twitter app for the retweets specifically. For now look at this tweet from God_Damn_Batman (7620 followers): Invented a new drink called The Batman. Ask for vermouth, c
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by alexro 16y ago
Hard to sum up in a few words, but one scenario is quite noticeable: the most retweets come from a group sharing similar interests, they basically retweet just for the sake of making this interest into a trend.
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by alexro 16y ago
I've launched a website dedicated to tracking responses on twitter. You will be surprised on the stuff that mostly gets retweeted, so I think your request was simply not interesting to the many. My website is http://topytalk.com , it has f
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Ask HN: Review my website - topytalk.com
3 points by alexro 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexro 16y ago
Redis rocks, but using it as a search engine does not rock at all IMO. For one thing - if the item changes then you have to update all the keys that hold references to that item. EDIT: it's fine if your items are very small or do not change
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by alexro 16y ago
This is what the author is saying: authentic isn't binary
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by alexro 16y ago
I'm on the several twitter streams, totaling to around 20% of all the tweets. During a month I've got 8 million active users.
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by alexro 16y ago
Overall, the graph is correct. But... Twitter population is about 10 times smaller than of Facebook. Also, many twitter-ers simply use a desktop/mobile client and not do anything Twitter-related on the web.
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by alexro 17y ago
Like someone else said in another thread big company managers do never look for productivity but for how to rule the world
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by alexro 17y ago
The masses prefer the easiest way to have fun. Drugs, alcohol, unhealthy sex are all dangerous but ... fun. And maintaining independence takes a lot of effort, which isn't fun.
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by alexro 17y ago
I don't understand the problem at all. Why would you follow so many crappy people that then you want to unfollow them in bulk? Thinking about this makes Twitter sound right
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by alexro 17y ago
Do you think reddit (or twitter or digg or stumbleupon) users will start liking the "like" and prefer it to replace other buttons? Completely agreeing about the ridiculous aspect of so many buttons though.
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by alexro 17y ago
"food and shows"- that's what the masses want, unfortunately
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by alexro 17y ago
Jason shall not bother about employees. His money-making Spam-machine is already doing magics. And will probably continue to run even if all workers leave.
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by alexro 17y ago
While it might be looking funny to you I truly feel for the Status.ly founders (and others screwed). Having burn myself all my savings in the past I know what it takes to start over again. And hearing how these guys at bootuplabs have first
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by alexro 17y ago
Isn't it better to optimize the titles, not just abandon them completely? One way would be having dynamic titles based on what you do: user identity coordinator , analytics specialist and keep it flat? Titles change when your actual
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by alexro 17y ago
And the first thing they said was : "you must be grateful for all we did to you". Screw them
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by alexro 17y ago
The main point goes like this: I can't be friends with all smart people. Thus, HN and other 'neutral' sites gonna stay.
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by alexro 17y ago
There are still plenty of networks/forums where people continue having fun with their buddies, it is just that techcrunch doesn't write about them.
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by alexro 17y ago
I wish I could upvote you twice as this is the essence of what 'normal' people do not understand and the internet gurus do: no big social network can survive without selling out it's user base in some sort. The rest is just mechanics.
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by alexro 17y ago
With twitter annotations around the corner these (valid) concerns should be addressed
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@Anywhere lacks a 'retweet' button
1 points by alexro 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Buzz buttons released(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by alexro 17y ago|0 comments

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