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Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

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Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#11
This is not very useful. It's essentially a directory that maps twitter ids to G+ profiles. If you're the first of your friends to sign up, you'll find no results.

Hard to categorize a tool as useful if it has social network effects (needs critical mass).

Note that by signing up you're giving up the profile association willingly into their database.

Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#12
post #5

Not so great - Seems to require your Twitter followers to associate their Google account on Migrat.us before it's of any use.

Yeah, and people can already link to their twitter from their profile page. So this shouldn't be needed, a simple crawler should be sufficient.

Scraping might not even be needed given that Google has an API for that http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/

Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#14

As much as I'd prefer to consolidate to using Google+, Google+ is not a replacement for Twitter for me. I would like to be able to post publicly based on broad topics like #programming so that all of my friends and family that have no clue what technobabble I am rambling about would not have to see it in their feed. I created a programming circle, but that does not make my posts public if I post to that circle. As fa…

With G+ it's possible to filter your output (into circles) but there's no way to filter the input. I've put all my hacker friends into a hacker circle, but when I browse that stream I get all their public/extended posts plus the posts for whatever circle they've put me in. Basically, they know I'm following, but they can't know why I'm following. I can't signal to them that I want them to put me in circle for all their hacking posts and not their pictures-of-cats posts.

I've actually started making posts that say, "If you can see this post, I'm following you because [X]."

Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#18
post #2

Do all my twitter peeps have to connect to migratus as well for this to work? That's what it seems like. I was expecting a service that would scrape all the G+ profiles for the twitter names listed there and compare it with my list of twitter followers.

By scraping all Google+ profiles, it would not solve the problem of fake profiles. Anyone could use your Twitter username and let your followers think they are you. With migratus, you are sure that the Google+ profile it gives you is the one provided by the Twitter user.

How large of a problem do you think this is?

Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#19
post #2

Do all my twitter peeps have to connect to migratus as well for this to work? That's what it seems like. I was expecting a service that would scrape all the G+ profiles for the twitter names listed there and compare it with my list of twitter followers.

By scraping all Google+ profiles, it would not solve the problem of fake profiles. Anyone could use your Twitter username and let your followers think they are you. With migratus, you are sure that the Google+ profile it gives you is the one provided by the Twitter user.

If they can somehow create content that fools me into thinking they are the original person, I might just be as interested in following the impostor instead.

Re: Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

#20
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By scraping all Google+ profiles, it would not solve the problem of fake profiles. Anyone could use your Twitter username and let your followers think they are you. With migratus, you are sure that the Google+ profile it gives you is the one provided by the Twitter user.

How large of a problem do you think this is?

I don't think it's a problem at the moment, but it could easily become one when such tools become available to the public.

Though, I still think that an non-perfect tool as described above would bring much more value than what migrat.us brings with its 500~ users.

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