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I didn't have twitter in my profile. Can you add me?
Sure. You are on. It is updated automatically with time, so people don't need to worry about particular requests.
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Hi Andy. I am sorry, but not everybody had a clear twitter username on their profile. You are right, the list was complemented with the data from this one: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b... I've added you to the direct list. Note that the inference algorithm is quite forgiving, so "twitter @Locke1689", or "@Locke1689 on twitter", or even "twitter: Locke1689" would all have worked out. Ab…
I think you could have easily assumed any word starting with @ is a twitter profile, especially if it does in fact correspond to an existing twitter profile. Also, I feel left out. :P
As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername.
Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
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I think you could have easily assumed any word starting with @ is a twitter profile, especially if it does in fact correspond to an existing twitter profile. Also, I feel left out. :P
Yeah, I've tried a lot of these things. Unfortunately emails get caught up as well. And then you get users like yahoo, gmail, and so on. As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername. Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
That's a great point. Can you post info on the site on how to be included or self exclude for those who have a twitter account? (I don't but have considered getting one. I would kind of like to know how to self exclude should I get one. I've had lots of issues over the years with unwanted, negative attention. One of my primary concerns these days is having some control over how much exposure I am getting.)
Thanks so much.
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Hi. Thanks for noticing. The reason is that standard Hacker News profiles don't have photos or real names. Therefore I focused on the 1000 Hacker News profiles that have such data (by stating their twitter profiles). Notice that HNSearch API limits the amount of responses to 1000, but this has nothing to do with the current limit (you can hack this limit by sorting ascending and descending). But the limit was not rea…
I have just the twitter handle on a new line, if someone has 1 word on a new line starting with @ it's probably pretty safe to assume its a twitter.
However, the biggest problem is finding such users. HNSearchAPI is not complete (for instance, fogus is not listed when you search for "twitter"[1], but is when you search for "twitter.com"[2]).
Which requires quite a lot of crawling (the unnofficial api helps sometimes[3], and sometimes it doesn't[4]). And HN robots is quite restrictive[5]
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&#...
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.c...
[3] http://api.ihackernews.com/page
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I think you could have easily assumed any word starting with @ is a twitter profile, especially if it does in fact correspond to an existing twitter profile. Also, I feel left out. :P
Yeah, I've tried a lot of these things. Unfortunately emails get caught up as well. And then you get users like yahoo, gmail, and so on. As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername. Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
How often does the list get refreshed? Or is it live? (if it's live, how are you handling the attention without melting servers)
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Yeah, I've tried a lot of these things. Unfortunately emails get caught up as well. And then you get users like yahoo, gmail, and so on. As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername. Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some. That's a great point. Can you post info on the site on how to be included or self exclude for those who have a twitter account? (I don't but have considered getting one. I would kind of like to know how to self exclude should I get one. I've had lots of issues over the years with unwanted, negative atte…
For now, I just make clear that things like "myname on twitter" and "twitter is myname" will never be considered.
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Yeah, I've tried a lot of these things. Unfortunately emails get caught up as well. And then you get users like yahoo, gmail, and so on. As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername. Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
Edited! How often does the list get refreshed? Or is it live? (if it's live, how are you handling the attention without melting servers)
Also the attention is not that bad (8775 visits so far). Also, heroku's varnish cache on static assets, html page and on Ajax requests is pretty great.
And mixpanel is handling the metrics, so I'm pretty covered.
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Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some. That's a great point. Can you post info on the site on how to be included or self exclude for those who have a twitter account? (I don't but have considered getting one. I would kind of like to know how to self exclude should I get one. I've had lots of issues over the years with unwanted, negative atte…
Sure thing. For now, I just make clear that things like "myname on twitter" and "twitter is myname" will never be considered.
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Sure. You are on. It is updated automatically with time, so people don't need to worry about particular requests.
I've just updated my HN profile with a Google+ profile link at the VERY end of the profile.
Edit: In the mean time, I'll probably add support for the entire leaderboard, focusing only the standard HN profile. No photos though...
[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/101556315529391051445/posts//p/p...
"Holy cow, I am almost on the leader board. I spend too much time here."