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Nuzzel is going away for now

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Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

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Post by Grimm1 »

freediver wrote: post #5

Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the noise of Twitter in one click? And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above or way below my pay grade.

"Twitter has spun up an internal team of Nuzzel acolytes whose goal is to take the best of the Nuzzel experience and build it directly into Twitter."

Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

#12

Post by 1cvmask »

PostHeat wrote: post #9
flakiness wrote: post #2

I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link…

I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use case?

I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.

Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

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Post by flakiness »

PostHeat wrote: post #9
flakiness wrote: post #2

I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link…

I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use case?

It's for myself finding interesting links. Not for building audience or anything. Probably not a target user of your startup.

Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

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Post by pavel_lishin »

Grimm1 wrote: post #11
freediver wrote: post #5

Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the noise of Twitter in one click? And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above or way below my pay grade.

"Twitter has spun up an internal team of Nuzzel acolytes whose goal is to take the best of the Nuzzel experience and build it directly into Twitter."

My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.

Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

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Post by HlessClaudesman »

PostHeat wrote: post #9
flakiness wrote: post #2

I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link…

I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use case?

I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc.

Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate this feels like trying to get the much promised Flash level of interactivity out of HTML5.

I am sad Nuzzel is being shitcanned. Somthing good has been lost.

Re: Nuzzel is going away for now

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Post by Siira »

flakiness wrote: post #2

I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember. For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it. I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link…

You should be able to use some twitter scraping library to scrape tweets of your followees. Add some RSS feeds, and then sort the links based on repetition count, and email yourself the top 10 each week.
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