Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by dbuthay » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:22 PM UTC

Blankwood wrote: post #6

dbuthay wrote: post #4

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I can choose between a Nexus S or an IPad.

How long did it take you to build it? Can't you use Twitter search to do this though?

It took me about 3 days to build it. It's my first ruby / heroku app, so I learned a lot. Sinitter (http://sinitter.moocode.com/) saved me a lot of coding, though.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by fara » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

add img {border:none} to your css

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by santip » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

dbuthay wrote: post #8

Tichy wrote: post #5

Definitely something that I have been wanting for years. Not sure about your implementation, though. You are aware that twitter search only goes back a couple of weeks? Somehow I couldn't find the things I expected to find. Should I be more patient waiting for results (in case your app loads all my friend's tweets incrementally)? Then maybe you should display a spinner or something.

I'm fetching your timeline, you friends timelines, and indexing them with IndexTank. It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed. About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.

And you keep them even after they fall from Twitter search or the user timeline right, so eventually you'll be able to find tweets that are otherwise unreachable right?

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by dbuthay » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:33 PM UTC

santip wrote: post #13

dbuthay wrote: post #8

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I'm fetching your timeline, you friends timelines, and indexing them with IndexTank. It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed. About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.

And you keep them even after they fall from Twitter search or the user timeline right, so eventually you'll be able to find tweets that are otherwise unreachable right?

I keep all the tweets. So the answer is Yes, you'll be able to find tweets that twitter's search does not let you find.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by bmarashi » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 11:58 PM UTC

Very cool! Can this thing search my Twitter Favorites? I used Twitter Favorites like a bookmarking system vs. ReadItLater. I often search for things I want to archive and stick in my database or then read later...

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by bradleyjoyce » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 4:16 AM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #5

Definitely something that I have been wanting for years. Not sure about your implementation, though. You are aware that twitter search only goes back a couple of weeks? Somehow I couldn't find the things I expected to find. Should I be more patient waiting for results (in case your app loads all my friend's tweets incrementally)? Then maybe you should display a spinner or something.

have you checked out http://tweetsaver.com?

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by Tichy » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 12:31 PM UTC

bradleyjoyce wrote: post #16

Tichy wrote: post #5

Definitely something that I have been wanting for years. Not sure about your implementation, though. You are aware that twitter search only goes back a couple of weeks? Somehow I couldn't find the things I expected to find. Should I be more patient waiting for results (in case your app loads all my friend's tweets incrementally)? Then maybe you should display a spinner or something.

have you checked out http://tweetsaver.com ?

I signed up with some tweet backup service a while ago. Unfortunately I forgot which one it was :-(

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

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Post by booduh » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

I think it would be cool to have some "mood" analysis. The app tells me, "you started as angry, swung to calm, and are now worried. Based on current trends, tomorrow you will be happy; plan to surf."

I'm searching with text, yes, but what I'm really looking for is insight.