Comments on: TwitLinks: Not Useful, Not A TechMeme Killer

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:10:58 +0000

Twitlinks for Jaiku: http://jaiklinks.com

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Twitturly Cracks The TwitterMeme Nut — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:36:18 +0000

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[...] where users can highlight posts about interesting events in real time. As Mike Arrington points out, Twitter is already a great source of breaking news, because the real time nature of microblogging [...]

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Laurent’s blog » Blog Archive » Around the web this week — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:08:11 +0000

[...] of today) and extract the links from their tweets transforming them in a blog like page. It seems not to be enough, hopefully they will add some brain to it [...]

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links for 2008-04-15 « Breyten’s Dev Blog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:30:32 +0000

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By: dailytwitter

dailytwitter — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:06:11 +0000

twitlinks is a good start at trying to pull together a disparate and chaotic communication medium. it will mature I am sure, as the critics espouse their displeasure at how it functions - thats easy, any puppet can do that.

maybe something like dailytwitter when it finally goes into beta with go towards some of that data mining?

http://blog.dailytwitter.com/?p=41

daliytwitter…

By: handbag

handbag — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:51:09 +0000

By: frames

frames — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:49:36 +0000

TwitLinks good

By: MeatyREADS » Twitter is the First News

MeatyREADS » Twitter is the First News — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:13:58 +0000

[...] never even heard of Twitter, let alone know its value for breaking news. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says: It’s clear that Twitter is the place that a lot of news breaks first (example), hours before [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:39:44 +0000

I’ll roll with #22 a bit - alltop (gosh — i can’t believe i’m about to say this) has already proven…..useful to me…and just a few days ago it was the cat’s pee.

Way to go, Guy - I suck! You rule! Or the day laborers you paid to put that site together for you rule.

Watch our, haters - you’re time is coming! It buuurrrrrrns. Be careful with the hate!

That said, does this Twitterish site actually do anything? No.

By: Casey Cuddy

Casey Cuddy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:19:19 +0000

TechCrunch wasn’t all that valuable, or feature perfect, or well-defined in the beginning either. Truth is that heavy news consumers are migrating AWAY from the origin to the aggregators. TwitLinks is yet another with credibility behind its human filters. The question becomes, what is the credibility of the human “expert” filter posting links, which is not to say that Michael has none in his assessment (obv). However, it is to say that the mere act of spamming TwitLinks to prove that it can be done validates that it is the human filter that is the ORIGIN of any potential problem.

Can’t we stop asking technology to do EVERYTHING, and take some responsibility for our own approach, interests and behaviors in influencing how effective certain apps, and the medium overall, become in helping us to navigate the flood? TwitLinks is only as helpful as its contributors, so be helpful, please.

By: Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:11:55 +0000

Bam wrote: “so we now found out RWW probably got paid to write that post. even if they didn’t, they certainly cheated us!”

I missed the part where you explained the logic for that Anyway I can confirm that we weren’t paid to write about it.

By: D.L.

D.L. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:00:51 +0000

Is there going to be any friction with Leo over the Twit name?

By: pte

pte — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:51:46 +0000

michael to remove competitions for his friends?

By: Ely Fall

Ely Fall — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:51:39 +0000

The nice thing about Twitter Apps is the majority serve a purpose, and they are more creative&useful than 95% of Facebook applications. I still wonder why there is no Twitter Apps Fund yet

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:31:09 +0000

@michael - The links haven’t been removed, they are further down the page. Thanks for highlighting a problem with twitlinks which I will try and get fixed

@Bam - RWW didn’t get paid to write that post

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:22:45 +0000

@Tony - Exactly how long have you been reading this blog?

By: Bam Azizi

Bam Azizi — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:07:58 +0000

so we now found out RWW probably got paid to write that post. even if they didn’t, they certainly cheated us! but that’s doesn’t make Michael Arrington the saint either!

Blog and blogers are killing the very thing that made them so popular among people, which used to be unbiased, raw and honest attention to their passion and people’s precious time. But now, every tech blog is fighting for a bit of extra attention, killing somebody else’s fling and expanding into different markets while killing other blogs, sounds too much like the good old corporate world.

i hope me and my own blog would never become this… disgusting!!!

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:56:38 +0000

I like that Arrington is blunt. Too many tech blogs sugarcoat things.

By: Luis Figueiredo

Luis Figueiredo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:15:43 +0000

There something out there already that may be what you’re looking for: http://www.alphatwitter.com
Check it out

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:14:18 +0000

They’ve removed the spammy links that I put in, but it’s obvious that they did it manually. That doesn’t scale.

By: Kyle MacRae

Kyle MacRae — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:05:15 +0000

I was trying to do something like this a couple of weeks ago - filtering and aggregating tweets on the basis of how many people ’star’ them. So if 200 people star the same tweet, it’s likely to appear in the current ‘most popular’ list. Lists refreshed continually to ensure freshness, all-time top charts, archive, categorization etc etc. What you have then is a quality filter to cut through the noise.

It’s also a level playing field in the sense that a star from Mike Arrington carries no more weight than a star from, well, me or anybody else. But there is weighting of sorts, of course, because those people with the most followers are more likely to attract stars from their followers. Probably have to filter out the obvious system-gamers.

Problem was getting access to the data i.e. being able to scan everybody’s public feed continuously to pick up starred tweets. No way to do this with Twitter’s current API. Ergo, brick wall on the development front.

If anyone can help, please get in touch: kyle@scunnered.com