Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city
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#2looks great.. way to go..
ranking tweets based on re-tweets is the best way to filter out twitter noise..
a suggestion would be to keep it local to begin with.. india specific.. else it'll again somewhat become noise at international level..
I created something on same lines but much much smaller (and minimal) : www.lessvu.com
primarily to track certain active communities in india.. (presently works for journalists only)
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#3Looks awesome !, really interesting data in my city Bangalore
Are you ppl looking only at no of Retweets ?
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#420 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 available options on the site, London is closest to me.
Re: Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city
#520 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…
Agree, should have said "Building a tweetmeme of its own for every city". This is the first release, we are taking the no. of cities to 50+ with the next release in 6-8 weeks.
The focus till now has been on building algorithms that are kickass enough to filter junk out and keep only useful stuff in. Still WIP I know, but what do you think about that. Take http://frrole.com/san+francisco for example.
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#620 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…
Agree, should have said "Building a tweetmeme of its own for every city". This is the first release, we are taking the no. of cities to 50+ with the next release in 6-8 weeks. The focus till now has been on building algorithms that are kickass enough to filter junk out and keep only useful stuff in. Still WIP I know, but what do you think about that. Take http://frrole.com/san+francisco for example.
The suggestion is that the user should be able to enter any city, not just use the preset ones.
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#7Looks awesome !, really interesting data in my city Bangalore Are you ppl looking only at no of Retweets ?
Good to know that you liked it, Certainly we consider tweet count but that's not the only thing, we have put lots of logic for analyzing tweet's nature (textual/NLP), relevance (by city and category) and most importantly we have worked on cutting noise.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree, should have said "Building a tweetmeme of its own for every city". This is the first release, we are taking the no. of cities to 50+ with the next release in 6-8 weeks. The focus till now has been on building algorithms that are kickass enough to filter junk out and keep only useful stuff in. Still WIP I know, but what do you think about that. Take http://frrole.com/san+francisco for example.
The suggestion is that the user should be able to enter any city, not just use the preset ones.
Thanks, that is how it is intended to be in the longer term. But going to hit Twitter's rate limits very soon and access to full firehose is way too costly for a bootstrapped startup.
Hope to scale to 50+ cities by ourselves, validate traction with users from those 50 cities and then look at really big scaling, if it is getting some love:)
Re: Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city
#9looks great.. way to go.. ranking tweets based on re-tweets is the best way to filter out twitter noise.. a suggestion would be to keep it local to begin with.. india specific.. else it'll again somewhat become noise at international level.. I created something on same lines but much much smaller (and minimal) : www.lessvu.com primarily to track certain active communities in india.. (presently works for journalists o…
thanks. Retweets is just one rule. Pretty much like google uses back links as an indicator, but has 200-300 other rules, we use retweets as an indicator but have 100+ rules probably. or around. These rules are spread across metadata analysis (language based, response type, location based filtering etc), statistical analysis(no of retweets, recency based scoring etc) and linguistic/textual analysis (syntactical construction, use of spammy words, characters etc)
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#1020 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…
And yes, about geo location, that is built in. But if you match neither the city nor the country, then it takes you to a global default.