This should be "twitularity", since it has NOTHING to do with authority, its about popularity. Your tweets have ZERO additional AUTHORITY to mine because you have more followers.
Mike Power
· 11 months ago
Amen to that brother! We have to remember that for a small number of guys this is all about ego. 99% of users just get on with it and use Twitter for their own purposes.
Annet de Graaf
· 11 months ago
Wikipedia:
Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the élite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, which enjoys a privileged status envied by individuals of lower social status.
You take the heart outof Twitter, with this THING Therefor I demand you to reconsider this pathetic idea
Regards, Annet
nicolesimon
· 11 months ago
I dont see anybody forcing me to use such a system. And I do not see anybody being forced to use the system. An elite only is in place when it is accepted by the rest.
So please, if somebody like Loic wants to search by this and I would like to search by location for example (not town, but you know like "Europe and English") then why should I not be able to do so?
btw loic: as much as I did not like the rest of it because it was disappointing in the results, you might want to give radian6 a try. they allow - as much as they know about the data - a sorting by followers and have historic data.
Loic Lemeur
· 11 months ago
thanks Nicole for your notes about democracy :) will try the other one.
chacha102
· 11 months ago
This entire debate is going nowhere. You can't put a value on a Tweet because so many people have so many different values. You need to create a very advanced search that allows people to chose between popularity, @replies, retweets, etc
shedali
· 11 months ago
brilliant
catepol
· 11 months ago
It doesn't work in this moment... :-(
Loic Lemeur
· 11 months ago
works fine for me, remember the domain is brand new so it must be a dns propagation issue
I_have_just_200_followers
· 11 months ago
it would be nice if the domain would work,so i can see what the fuss is all about:)
PurpleCar
· 11 months ago
Checking out twitority. It's pretty cool. I searched on 'writing' -- seemed like it scanned recent tweets with the word "writing" in it, the sorted the tweeters by follower numbers, then ordered them down the page with top followers first. It would be nice if they also hit bios. Some people mention writing but don't list themselves as a writer in their bio. But all in all, it's a nifty piece of coding. Seems to be what you asked for, Loic. You are like magic! You say something then get it delivered 12 hours later. Can you post something about getting me a book deal? Or a million dollars? kthxbai! :)
Loic Lemeur
· 11 months ago
PurpleCar, anytime, just ask and Santa Loic will deliver :) Oh I should not joke like that or people will call me ego whore authoritarian again
IAmKat
· 11 months ago
Surely it's important to factor in subject knowledge in all of this.I may be poor on responses to tech stuff but I'm good on snowboarding, factor in that very few of my Twitter buds are highly skilled snowboarders and I'm bound to rank poorly.....not that I'm bothered I find the things I need to know by searching and asking my Twitter network. If someone wrote something valuable to me and my friends spotted it they'd tell me. The problem for Loic is too much volume and not enough people he trusts to point him at the Le Web stuff he should read!
Christian
· 11 months ago
to many request is down!
Annet de Graaf
· 11 months ago
Just stirring things up a bit ;-) Let's us be sharp on this and stand guard over the enjoyable aspects of Twitter. Not in vertical direction but horizontally.
IAmKat
· 11 months ago
Having had a play it's no better than Twitted search for me. Volume of response and voice doesn't equate to authority as I see all too often on snowboarding forums where unknowledgable, unskilled but popular kids give advice on complex tricks when in real life they can't link their own turns! Well done to the developers for building something so quickly though
Daniel Tunkelang
· 11 months ago
I'm glad this application exists. Now people can vote with their feet and we can resolve this debate empirically by seeing whether this or a similar service gets traction. So far, the only people promoting it seem to be Loic Le Meur and Michael Arrington, but perhaps their authority will inspire the masses.
Chuck
· 11 months ago
can anybody post the IP address of www.twitority.com? Then we wouldn't have to deal with the DNS propagation issue
Martin Revert
· 11 months ago
I've think that the authority range must be configurable. A lot of authority for me maybe not means the same "a lot" for Loic Lemeur. Instead of that, it is a good aplication to research topics, but maybe Twitter is not thinking to open too much this. Remember, the mos valuable asset of Twitter as a company is not the microblogging platform: It is the extense database generated across the time.
colleen
· 11 months ago
yeh I think twitularity would be better name. Nice technical hack and I'm sure some excellent queries but content of results unimpressive for my niche. basically some subjects are more popular than others too and in that case an authority in a very specific niche might only have 100 followers or so. You need a ratio total number tweets found to even that score.
Pooxi
· 11 months ago
New way to Get Things Done => ask Loïc ;) nice
coldbrew
· 11 months ago
Chuck: 67.225.136.72
Perhaps this is good on short notice, but multiple levels of filtering are needed, and they should be offered simultaneously. The word 'authority' needs to be replaced with 'influence' if # of followers is being used.
Vicki
· 11 months ago
Agreeing that "twitority" is a Really Bad choice of name. So wrong in so many ways. Even Loic admits he used the wrong word.
Let's not spread this inappropriate phrasing further, please.
shareme
· 11 months ago
Loic are they using Gnip to get aroudnd the twitter API limitations?
JeffAndersen
· 11 months ago
It's using cURL which is the reason behind the load time, as the twitter API does not allow for grabbing of users' followers/following figures.
zennie62
· 11 months ago
I agree with chacha102 above in that the Tweets have levels of value that differ with what's important to the individual -- this effort seems a bit like a dictatorship. Of course, one could offer Digg as a counter, but that's another culture. The imposition you ask for would cause an undesired cultural change.
JoeDuck
· 11 months ago
As much as I hate this idea a huge hats off to Wheatley and his gang for ... making it so. Hmmmm and Loic you sort of look like Jean Luc Picard ....
Viss
· 11 months ago
Ranking peoples 'weight' by how many spam bots are following them is really really stupid.
You're using a metric thats been watered down by spammers.
fredwilson
· 11 months ago
i love that people are hacking around the twitter service and creating solutions to the things people want. it's such an open and creative environment.
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Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the élite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, which enjoys a privileged status envied by individuals of lower social status.
You take the heart outof Twitter, with this THING
Therefor I demand you to reconsider this pathetic idea
Regards, Annet
So please, if somebody like Loic wants to search by this and I would like to search by location for example (not town, but you know like "Europe and English") then why should I not be able to do so?
btw loic: as much as I did not like the rest of it because it was disappointing in the results, you might want to give radian6 a try. they allow - as much as they know about the data - a sorting by followers and have historic data.
joke like that or people will call me ego whore authoritarian again
Well done to the developers for building something so quickly though
Remember, the mos valuable asset of Twitter as a company is not the microblogging platform: It is the extense database generated across the time.
nice
Perhaps this is good on short notice, but multiple levels of filtering are needed, and they should be offered simultaneously. The word 'authority' needs to be replaced with 'influence' if # of followers is being used.
Let's not spread this inappropriate phrasing further, please.
Hmmmm and Loic you sort of look like Jean Luc Picard ....
You're using a metric thats been watered down by spammers.
Doing this manually is just too much effort:
http://agitationist.com/1500-more-reasons-twitt...