Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by joshribakoff » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 6:49 AM UTC

Cool, please add keyboard controls. Really addictive idea but swiping on a laptop isn't fun

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by ehsankia » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 6:53 AM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #37

wyxuan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI- To encourage more organic “karma” , votes that are cast from people who accessed direct links aren’t counted

HN always surprises me with little measures like this one.

Reddit has (and always had) this and many more. It's all part of their extensive anti-abuse system. For example if you go to someone's profile and downvote all their comments, that probably won't work. If you link your post on chat and tell them to go upvote you, won't work either. There's many more of these, and most of them look like they work but behind the scene reddit takes it all into consideration and knows people trying to game the system.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by ehsankia » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

blisseyGo wrote: post #47

Slightly related but some Redditor "created a NSFW TikTok clone, with just portait-mode porn gifs, some with sound. (works best on mobile)": https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/enn048/i_creat...

These are neat, but in my mind, TikTok is far more about the ForYou algorithm than the fact that it's a scrolling feed of videos. The latter is fairly easy to do, as showcased by this very thread. Any decent engineer can throw together a demo like this fairly easily. TikTok's huge success though seems to be due to how good it is at predicting what people will like, which is something that even Youtube struggles to sometimes. Of course predicting 10s videos is much easier than predicting 5m videos.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by nextaccountic » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

Note, you need to disable tracking protection for this page in Firefox.

Also, how to move to the next video? I'm on desktop.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by heed » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:04 AM UTC

llacb47 wrote: post #28

This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;) https://twiktwok.github.io/firstVids.js

So all of the content is manually uploaded to the repo?

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by thinkloop » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:08 AM UTC

galuggus wrote: post #13

shyn3 wrote: post #12

It would be nice if the links are clickable and a randomized order of videos.

You are right. This is an early version. Thanks for the feedback. I would have liked to post it to showhn on Monday when I had cleaned it up a bit but fate took it out of my hands.

What did fate do?

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by nsomaru » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:14 AM UTC

Scaevolus wrote: post #55

This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )

Unfortunately that makes me download the app. Firefox for iOS

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by blocked_again » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

llacb47 wrote: post #28

This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;) https://twiktwok.github.io/firstVids.js

That's just the ouput cache of the algorithm's last run. The algorithm itself is pretty advanced and is run on the developers's biological neural net.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by INTPenis » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:58 AM UTC

This is a simple way of showing Twitter where they missed out.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:58 AM UTC

bradgessler wrote: post #44

Microsoft x TikTok = Bing Bong

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