Loic Le Meur - Latest Comments in Twitority Made It.

Re: Twitority Made It.

Guest — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:26:12 -0000

What we really need is the ability to search by # of posts about "what I'm having for lunch".
Doing this manually is just too much effort:
http://agitationist.com/150...

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Sachin Balagopalan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:19:04 -0000

It's a technical challenge and a scaling issue IMO .... http://tinyurl.com/7nm5lz

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fredwilson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:48:53 -0000

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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Dan Tentler — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:42:12 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

JoeDuck — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:20:26 -0000

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 ....

Re: Twitority Made It.

Guest — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:55:41 -0000

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.

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shareme — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:53:44 -0000

Loic are they using Gnip to get aroudnd the twitter API limitations?

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Mike Power — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:08:17 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

Vicki — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:43:10 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

coldbrew — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:28:54 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

Pooxi — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:06:28 -0000

New way to Get Things Done => ask Loïc ;)
nice

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Colleen R. Kitchen — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:50:09 -0000

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.

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Martin Revert — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:41:21 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

Chuck — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:21:07 -0000

can anybody post the IP address of www.twitority.com? Then we wouldn't have to deal with the DNS propagation issue

Re: Twitority Made It.

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:17:50 -0000

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.

Re: Twitority Made It.

IAmKat — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:54:17 -0000

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

Re: Twitority Made It.

Annet de Graaf — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:49:45 -0000

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.

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Christian — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:48:02 -0000

to many request is down!

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IAmKat — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:46:06 -0000

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!

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PurpleCar — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:40:54 -0000

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! :)

Re: Twitority Made It.

Loic Le Meur — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:39:48 -0000

works fine for me, remember the domain is brand new so it must be a dns propagation issue

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Loic Le Meur — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:39:15 -0000

thanks Nicole for your notes about democracy :) will try the other one.

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I_have_just_200_followers — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:38:40 -0000

it would be nice if the domain would work,so i can see what the fuss is all about:)

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catepol — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:35:15 -0000

It doesn't work in this moment... :-(

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shedali — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:33:43 -0000

brilliant