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This is so annoying, I know.. But people just love to debate whether Twitter is alive, dying, or already dead, so I figured they could use a common space to talk about it. Twitter …

Help others? I'm looking for help on my side project, dev/marketing, probably someone like you. Check my about and ping me if interested. Maybe a fresh project that you find intere…

I like the notion of organic web . But the parallel between food and web in terms of consumption doesn't stand. The currency for food is money and organic food is more expensive, w…

Oh yes sure, Svven doesn't post tweets for you or anything like that. Thanks for pointing this out, I'm thinking about changing the Twitter app settings to read-only. All it does i…

Thank you for the insight! I'm very interested because (as I mentioned several times here already so sorry for the plug again) I'm building http://svven.com . It's also about recom…

Totally agree on Facebook, but Twitter is much more valuable than the ephemeral tweets. I think the difference between the two comes from the nature of user relationships. While on…

Wow I'm really flattered! And also a little worried given your description of some of your students :P But sure, it should be interesting, also because Svven is built in Python and…

Recent News is quite interesting. How is it different from Prismatic?

I get the point, but as I mentioned it all comes down to how the system works. Svven for example puts together people tweeting same links. Tweeting, not liking. Two tweets containi…

Ok good idea, I just followed you on Twitter ;) But if you're interested in different perspectives from your own, isn't this part of your, well, interests? Do you still need to bre…

Disclaimer: I'm building http://svven.com Your concern is the so called "filter bubble". I think it all comes down to how this kind of system is implemented. Svven in particular en…

More than half. Twitter is basically a commenting system for web links. This is obvious if you look at tools such as http://svven.com or http://nuzzel.com .

Oh, and you need 200 of karma to create a poll. I'm still not there yet, and I lost a lot of karma because of it. This is a post of mine that got 31 points - https://news.ycombinat…

That's what I was thinking, is karma really worth the time and effort? I understand how it helps the forum work well, but for the user doesn't seem much more than a vanity feature.…

You could make good use of your karma by adding a Hacker News chapter to your User Acquisition book. I would pay some for that.

That's too much work for $10k.

Means that the karma system is good. Anyone can point out what are the features that can be unlocked with more karma? I'd like to know what I'm missing.

I'm using http://svven.com It discovers the people that tweet same links as I do, and gives me what else they tweet. Disclaimer: I built it.

Did he? Well I applied for YC Fellowship and didn't make it. That was a pitty also given the naming coincidence - "fellowship" is the core concept in Svven. http://youtu.be/iQx-e4K…

This is another great point! Twitter just doesn't offer any incentive to tweet interesting stuff, besides the vanity features (stars/favs/likes/whatever they just introduced). Svve…

Yes! Twitter requires too much work to be useful! Sorry for the plug, but this is exactly how http://svven.com can help. New user tweets a couple of links - gets other people that …