Ask HN: Review my app: Firetweets

Post by adrianwaj » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

iampims wrote: post #11

adrianwaj wrote: post #10

I had an idea, which could fit in with a future phase of this app. Grabbing links from twitter lists and reposting with page title, link, and underlying tweet. It's about surfacing what's hot in certain user circles, for example, you might find twitter lists concerning the topics already displayed on Firetweets. The final display might end up somthing like: http://hackerbra.in/links -- some lists of interest http://t…

That's an interesting idea. Somewhere on my hard drive lingers an app that grabs all the links from your Twitter timeline and is supposed to send you a daily digest. I hadn't thought of including the tweet itself, but it can't hurt to have some context and hadn't thought of using lists either. Before thinking about phase two, I'd like to grow the site a little bit, but I will certainly keep this in mind. Thanks for t…

Post by adrianwaj » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 9:53 PM UTC

iampims wrote: post #13

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Good for you. Check out http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ as well. Also, check out this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556280 -- might be a new app for you to do..

I wasn't aware that Tweetmeme has an API. Might be really handy! Thanks :)

Post by adrianwaj » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 10:19 PM UTC

timhastings wrote: post #15

adrianwaj wrote: post #10

I had an idea, which could fit in with a future phase of this app. Grabbing links from twitter lists and reposting with page title, link, and underlying tweet. It's about surfacing what's hot in certain user circles, for example, you might find twitter lists concerning the topics already displayed on Firetweets. The final display might end up somthing like: http://hackerbra.in/links -- some lists of interest http://t…

Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing, e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs

Post by timhastings » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

iampims wrote: post #17

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Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing, e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs

That's really interesting. I started firetweets by tracking only node.js links. I really like the data driven approach you've taken. Do you plan on expanding to other topics? edit: You already do track other topics. That's really cool!

Post by iampims » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 10:34 PM UTC

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That's really interesting. I started firetweets by tracking only node.js links. I really like the data driven approach you've taken. Do you plan on expanding to other topics? edit: You already do track other topics. That's really cool!

Thank you. It already works for any hashtags or usernames that it encounters, here's #sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub