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Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by jordanlyall »

jordanlyall wrote: post #20
jarin wrote: post #18

I can understand some of the criticisms in this thread (and from a user experience point of view they're pretty valid), but I think using TweetPerView on your videos is more like saying "this video isn't free, but instead of paying money to watch it, you're paying a tweet's worth of social capital to watch it". I mean, ignoring the fact that the video is on YouTube and all.

Exactly, perhaps I need to work on getting that point across. Think of it as an alternative to micropayments.

Also, the idea is that if the video creator wants to make it exclusively available as a TweetPerView, they should mark the video as 'private' so it won't show on YouTube.com and make it available to be embedded.

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by jarin »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #14

Very nice idea, but you should let users tweet in the middle of the video or at the end. If you force me to tweet before I won't watch it, but in the middle I will be very likely to.

That's probably true for most people if it's just a video in the middle of a blank page, but I would guess that you can pretty easily get people to tweet to watch the video if you a) put up a compelling description of the video or series and/or testimonials, or b) already have a dedicated following.

If Seth Godin or Ramit Sethi did this, I doubt they would have any trouble at all getting thousands of tweets on each video.

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by johnrob »

dools wrote: post #10

The fundamental problem here is that I don't know if I want to tweet about a video before I watch it. A tweet is like an endorsement, especially when you have the extreme burden of more than 10 twitter followers (as I have) - you have a responsibility to your adoring public to ensure you fill your stream with high quality, relevant content. All jest aside, I think it's a great idea to have the ability to tweet during…

Nobody complains about referring friends as a way to ascend pre-release invite lists (i.e. http://www.socialcam.com/). How is this any different?

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by smbwrs »

dools wrote: post #10

The fundamental problem here is that I don't know if I want to tweet about a video before I watch it. A tweet is like an endorsement, especially when you have the extreme burden of more than 10 twitter followers (as I have) - you have a responsibility to your adoring public to ensure you fill your stream with high quality, relevant content. All jest aside, I think it's a great idea to have the ability to tweet during…

Agreed. If I was forced, or even prompted, to tweet before watching a video, there's a very strong chance I'd just close the damn tab. Don't force me to promote your content before I have a good reason to.

Seamless tweeting mid-video seems pretty useful, though!

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by treeface »

jordanlyall wrote: post #17

Hi guys, thanks for the response and feedback so far. A couple things: * This puts the M in MVP. By rolling it live, I hope to prove (or disprove) the general concept. * As I mentioned earlier, the next iteration will include an option for the video creator to add a 'dismiss' button to allow the viewer to bypass the tweet requirement and just play the video. * The next thing I want to test is an 'in-stream' tweet req…

What framework are you using for PHP?

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by kenkam »

The design is fantastic and I think you might be on to something here. Although there's the obvious problem (as seen from the comments) of users not being able to see what they endorse first, you will find ways to mitigate this.

Perhaps you let users tweet in the next X minutes of viewing; if they don't like it, they close the tab and there's no tweet.

In any case, good luck, and I look forward to seeing this work for you!

Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

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Post by shaggyfrog »

If I were ever forced to tweet about a video before I watched it, I would immediately close the tab and instead send a tweet about how idiotic the video poster is for making me jump through such a ridiculous hoop.

I'm not even sure how you'd take into account someone not actually having a Twitter account in the first place. I hear tell those people call themselves "normal".

Edit: almost forgot... if this "service" ever took off, the first thing I'd do is write a plugin to disable it.

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