Vancouver before Montreal? Does not make any sense :-)
Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city
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#12Vancouver before Montreal? Does not make any sense :-)
Montreal is up in the next release.
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#13This is interesting, but looking at the NYC one, your "Xpert Tweeters" really distort the idea of "local".
I'm seeing tons of national news from the WSJ, the NBA, and a score of other media outlets that are based in New York but not covering New York (aside from incidentals, e.g., that Wall Street is a street in Manhattan).
Also, as you expand, it might be worth while to drill down NYC by borough. Having a Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and even Hoboken NJ page would probably be worthwhile both for your users, and for you.
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#14Please expand to multiple cities, more content and Mobile. As it is first version, Still looking good.
Best wish
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#15This is interesting, but looking at the NYC one, your "Xpert Tweeters" really distort the idea of "local". I'm seeing tons of national news from the WSJ, the NBA, and a score of other media outlets that are based in New York but not covering New York (aside from incidentals, e.g., that Wall Street is a street in Manhattan). Also, as you expand, it might be worth while to drill down NYC by borough. Having a Brooklyn,…
Yup, have heard that one a couple of times already, we are going to take care of that one VERY soon. Plan to aggregate tweets at country/global level too going forward, so have to do it in a way that we remove them from the city but not lose them totally.
Check out some of the deals, events etc, though. Good "democratized" info (I hope:)), including things that would never make it through standard aggregators.
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#1620 cities is hardly "every city". I tried 'frrole.com/mycity', expecting a page to be generated on the fly, but no such luck. Should be possible though, and then you could legitimately state that you offer results for every city. It would also be a nice touch to use geolocation to automagically generate a city (or region) page. Right now, it presented me with the page for Mumbai, while I'm in Europe. Out of the avail…
just a mashup like Twits in London: http://tlondon.linkstore.ru
Re: Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city
#17This is interesting, but looking at the NYC one, your "Xpert Tweeters" really distort the idea of "local". I'm seeing tons of national news from the WSJ, the NBA, and a score of other media outlets that are based in New York but not covering New York (aside from incidentals, e.g., that Wall Street is a street in Manhattan). Also, as you expand, it might be worth while to drill down NYC by borough. Having a Brooklyn,…
Yup, some Xpert tweeter they talk about whole world (generic) but keep there location set to some particular city, which mess up data a bit, we have already found a solution for this problem, changes will be rolled out soon :)
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#1820 cities is hardly "every city". I tried 'frrole.com/mycity', expecting a page to be generated on the fly, but no such luck. Should be possible though, and then you could legitimately state that you offer results for every city. It would also be a nice touch to use geolocation to automagically generate a city (or region) page. Right now, it presented me with the page for Mumbai, while I'm in Europe. Out of the avail…
Also, relevant tweets for New York and San Francisco are already pretty easy to guess for anyone following technology news or national news. Chicago, Atlanta and Miami had much more diverse results and organic feeling results - provided tweets that felt characteristic of those cities.
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#19There is a value in providing a "social news paper for a city" but that's not what OP is doing now. "Swarm" intelligence is superior to an individual. Filtering news articles by number of re-tweets sets higher threshold for signal-to-noise ratio, however, 140 characters hardly constitute a "news article". Below, my suggestion for a data mining web application that is focused on delivering a news paper customized for a city with high signal-to-noise ratio news articles.
Input: X = country, Y = city, tweets from twitter
For each X scan last N million tweets that have a link to a web-site, output M most linked domains (Facebook.com, techcrunch.com, cnn.com, wsj.com, etc) - this gives you a base for news feeds customized for every country
For each Y in X, scan last n thousand tweets that have a link to a web-page, output m most linked web-pages that are hosted on M domains for Y country - this gives you the "social news paper for Y city in X country"
Parameters M and N prevent spamming and shape long term trends. Parameters n and m give you short term trends, which in essence are the "swarm" intelligence about which articles are worth reading for a given city in a given country. The value here is a time saver of what is worth reading to keep up with your community.
Note to self: could be a data mining web app
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#20There is a value in providing a "social news paper for a city" but that's not what OP is doing now. "Swarm" intelligence is superior to an individual. Filtering news articles by number of re-tweets sets higher threshold for signal-to-noise ratio, however, 140 characters hardly constitute a "news article". Below, my suggestion for a data mining web application that is focused on delivering a news paper customized for…
Really great inputs @zeratul, we will certainly analyze your technique :)