Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

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Post by migrochefort » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 8:08 PM UTC

Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter
migrat.us

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

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Post by hammock » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 8:52 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by jase_coop » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 9:34 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by code_duck » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

Google already has automated system to link up members to other profiles across the web. They could help with this fairly easily. Would people find that intrusive or creepy?

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

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Post by tonfa » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 11:09 PM UTC

jase_coop wrote: post #3

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.

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

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Post by daniel_iversen » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 11:51 PM UTC

Whats the "Google+ ID" you need to associate?

- firstname.lastname@gmail.com - https://plus.google.com/100033678853935069816 - 100033678853935069816

??

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

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Post by migrochefort » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 11:54 PM UTC

daniel_iversen wrote: post #6

Whats the "Google+ ID" you need to associate? - firstname.lastname@gmail.com - https://plus.google.com/100033678853935069816 - 100033678853935069816 ??

It's the numeric id only.

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

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Post by migrochefort » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 12:01 AM UTC

hammock wrote: 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.

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

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Post by migrochefort » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 12:02 AM UTC

tonfa wrote: post #5

jase_coop wrote: post #3

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.

A crawler offers no warranty that the Twitter username is legit.

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

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Post by mrinterweb » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 12:20 AM UTC

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 far as I know, any time you post to public, everyone who has put you in a circle sees your post. I get the impression that this is what Sparks is for, but I have not yet made the connection. Possibly I do not understand how to use Google+ yet. If someone knows how to accomplish this, please tell.