HN: I'll run a marathon to build whatever you decide on tweet.in

I haven't been able to come up with any strong ideas, so I'd like to give this group the opportunity. It may be a fun exercise, or a nightmare, but either way it'll be something different for a little while.

Submit your ideas and vote the best ones up to the top. Once a field of ideas has been established and I think a winner emerges I shall start a marathon session until completion.

Challenge me with wild ideas, or suggest simple tools to improve upon whatever already exists.. but whatever it is, explain why it would be valuable to you and others.

I'm open to the idea of giving the person who submits the winning idea a stake in the project, but as I'm in the UK it may be difficult to do so formally. Feel free to discuss whatever you think would be appropriate and I'll do my best to come up with something fair to reward your creativity.

Let's be tweetin!

Some sort of user quality measurement / recommendation engine thingy.

There's a lot of bullshit on Twitter these days, we need tools to sift through it to find the good stuff. Not Twitter's "Suggested Users" list, which mostly contains celebrities and companies.

There's a lot of metrics you could use:

* negative points for "follow-baiting", i.e. following hundreds or thousands of random users, hoping they'll follow you back, then unfollowing the people who don't follow you.

* number of user's Tweets favorited (normalized by number of followers?)

* average follower's rating. kind of like PageRank.

These are just a few off the top of my head.

You could build an app that doesn't have anything to do with tweeting. But that may be too hard to come up with.

tweet.in definetely sounds like you should be focusing on the publishing of tweets than the consuming.

one thing I have thought about doing with twitter is "lifestreaming" but properly, I want to mention gigs I have gone to, films I have watched, books I have read, bands i like. I may rate them, write a short review. but I would like to be able to go back over and see my history without silly searches

There is a real need for a reliability metric. For instance, a lot people recently tweeted rumors about Jeff Goldblum dying. Penalize those people. Other people actually were debunking the rumors, reward them. It will help quality to use an NLP grammar parser I believe. Every time there are rumors/scams on twitter you have a chance to improve your metric.