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Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:35:08 -0000

Thanks

I'll check it out

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fredwilson — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:25:08 -0000

I agree

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lukas — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:18:53 -0000

fred,

i also wanted to share our startup http://www.all140.com with you.

we are trying to build a really efficient real time news mag

Re: Twitter Link Page

Benjamin Yoskovitz — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:26:24 -0000

Cubby Scott looks interesting because of the RSS feed. Baking that back into a platform like TweetDeck would be great.

Also, with the indexation of links that's happening, I'd love to see a system that allows me to track subjects of links - so I could track links about "venture capital" and group them. Both from my followers but also non-followers. This would help even further, because even tracking links alone can be overwhelming with the # of them being tweeted. Search on keywords in tweets isn't enough b/c the tweets might not have the right keywords. And I don't even care about the text of the tweets (or necessarily about popularity) - just the meaning behind the links.

Re: Twitter Link Page

falicon — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:30:33 -0000

Hey thanks - yeah it's a little different than the specific things you were
asking about, I just mentioned it as more of a f.y.i. for you than anything
else...honestly I'm not sure it could handle the traffic from a headline
post anyway ;-)

Thanks for checking it out though...and let me know if you would like to see
any of it's features expanded on or beefed up to a more 'production capable'
version...

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:32:12 -0000

kevin - i checked out halfbite. it's cool but i am hesitant to recommend it on the main page of this post because its not really the app i was looking for. but there are a lot of interesting features in it.

Re: Twitter Link Page

falicon — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:35:47 -0000

I agree that an app like this saves time and helps cut down on some of the clutter...

What might be an interesting 'next' step would be to have some intelligent filters applied to this new app...basically have it index the content the links point to and do a bit of sorting and organizing into topics of conversation...so you could get an even quicker view of the 'topics' people in your time line are talking about (and also purge down duplicates and/or tangent bits of information that is more fun than relevant to a hot topic)...

I think I might have to add this to my 'things to work' on list as it already closely relates to another little side project myself and some friends are working on ;-)

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:49 -0000

I use sms

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fredwilson — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:27 -0000

I don't have a lot of free time and anything that can insure I don't miss the most important stuff is valuable

I get the tweets on my phone and enjoy the serrendipity and conversation I get from them

But I do need to see the most important links that are being passed by my friends

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:20 -0000

Thanks

Re: Twitter Link Page

tamccann — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:56:13 -0000

Fred,

We at Gist have done this for links contained in your email inbox. We now have the tweets and plan to group those links into the stream as well. Thanks for the idea.

Re: Twitter Link Page

Dan Entin — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:10:03 -0000

I'm not sure how you access Twitter on your Curve (TwitterBerry?) but you can actually see GWT in action with the mobile web client Slandr (http://m.slandr.net). They transcode all links in tweets with GWT. The downside of URL shorteners in this case is that it's one more server request which degrades load time somewhat (more on mobile than on PC probably).

Re: Twitter Link Page

William Mougayar — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:57:47 -0000

Doug, It might be useful to have opml as well- as it provides flexibility in splicing the feeds. Thanks :) (no fries, pls)

Re: Twitter Link Page

doug estadt — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:07:30 -0000

no sorries ever needed, was fabulous thing of you to do and very much appreciated. both were ready to go, just had to rush in a few contact details on twitrollr.

Re: Twitter Link Page

Prokofy — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:19:02 -0000

Well, Fred, I have to wonder why you don't do something much simpler, and that's just read Twitter on the web at those times you are sitting at your computer or have your laptop. Because then your whole page is in front of you with the people you are following and the @s, and you can see all the links on one full page, and click at will. Of course anyone who sent you an @ is there to be seen any time, and if you read the page a few times a day, you can generally see a lot of people anyway unless you have zillions of followees.

Because...while it may seem fun at first to press on every link, it will get tiresome. Do you REALLY want to spend you day reading what *other* people are saying and not thinking in solitude yourself, and writing your own ideas? You can spend hours clinking from one link to the other, but ask yourself: did you really get value from the list of things like that you were clicking on?

Well, now that you have this customized toy, I hope it has a "history," so you can go back and look at all those links, and see whether it was all worth it, chasing them. Maybe not!

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:18:57 -0000

Do you like your fries thin or thick? :)

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fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:52 -0000

Oops. I didn't know those services weren't ready for prime time doug. Sorry about that

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fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:48 -0000

You are way ahead everybody with stocktwits soren

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:34 -0000

I'm not familiar with GWT. I'll have to check it out

Thanks for the tip

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fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:32 -0000

Thanks

I'll get it added to the post when I get to a computer

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:30 -0000

Good point!

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fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:29 -0000

Sorry about that

Re: Twitter Link Page

fredwilson — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:25 -0000

Please send it my way

Re: Twitter Link Page

falicon — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:04:15 -0000

I built a handful of these type of apps as well out at http://www.halfbite.com (all built prior to your tweet actually) -- you can get a list of links from your timeline, you can see what words you (or a group of users) tweet the most, you can see what two people are talking to each other about via twitter, and a bunch of other things like that...

It's all mostly just stuff I hacked together because of requests like yours from other people, so it's not really meant to be commercial or anything (and honestly not sure how well it would scale to gobs-o-users), but it's out there if anyone wants to play around with some additional things...

Re: Twitter Link Page

daryn — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:17:49 -0000

I'd like to get my twitter links and trends in a daily email. I'd like to see the original tweets, for twitpics to be previewed, and for links to be shown unshortened along with the page title... And I'd like fries with that.

Real-time / stream-based is great, but I'd prefer a daily summary email I could filter, archive, and search through later. I thought I saw something similar, but can't seem to find it now. Does it exist / would anyone find it useful if I built it?