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What If Twitter Algorithm Was Like This?(medium.com)
1 points by ducuboy 11y ago|0 comments
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15 Most Tweeted Links in January(medium.com)
2 points by ducuboy 11y ago|0 comments
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by ducuboy 11y ago
This is so annoying, I know.. But people just love to debate whether Twitter is alive, dying, or already dead, so I figured they could use a common space to talk about it. Twitter is dead, long live Twitter! Cheers, @ducu
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Is Twitter Dead?(istwitterdead.com)
3 points by ducuboy 11y ago|1 comments
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Help others? I'm looking for help on my side project, dev/marketing, probably someone like you. Check my about and ping me if interested. Maybe a fresh project that you find interesting would make it easier to get back to work. Go
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by ducuboy 11y ago
I like the notion of organic web . But the parallel between food and web in terms of consumption doesn't stand. The currency for food is money and organic food is more expensive, while the currency for web is generally time spent, and
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Oh yes sure, Svven doesn't post tweets for you or anything like that. Thanks for pointing this out, I'm thinking about changing the Twitter app settings to read-only. All it does is parse your home timeline to get the tweets so re
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Thank you for the insight! I'm very interested because (as I mentioned several times here already so sorry for the plug again) I'm building http://svven.com . It's also about recommendation but instead of AI I&#x27
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Totally agree on Facebook, but Twitter is much more valuable than the ephemeral tweets. I think the difference between the two comes from the nature of user relationships. While on Facebook it had to be reciprocal (following was added later
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Wow I'm really flattered! And also a little worried given your description of some of your students :P But sure, it should be interesting, also because Svven is built in Python and I see this is what you teach. I just followed you on T
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Recent News is quite interesting. How is it different from Prismatic?
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by ducuboy 11y ago
I get the point, but as I mentioned it all comes down to how the system works. Svven for example puts together people tweeting same links. Tweeting, not liking. Two tweets containing same link can have very different and often contradictory
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Ok good idea, I just followed you on Twitter ;) But if you're interested in different perspectives from your own, isn't this part of your, well, interests? Do you still need to break out of that? Personally I see the "filter
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm building http://svven.com Your concern is the so called "filter bubble". I think it all comes down to how this kind of system is implemented. Svven in particular encourages you to navigate further
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by ducuboy 11y ago
More than half. Twitter is basically a commenting system for web links. This is obvious if you look at tools such as http://svven.com or http://nuzzel.com .
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Oh, and you need 200 of karma to create a poll. I'm still not there yet, and I lost a lot of karma because of it. This is a post of mine that got 31 points - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667 And it was pick
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by ducuboy 11y ago
That's what I was thinking, is karma really worth the time and effort? I understand how it helps the forum work well, but for the user doesn't seem much more than a vanity feature. Being able to flag/downvote is something I r
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by ducuboy 11y ago
You could make good use of your karma by adding a Hacker News chapter to your User Acquisition book. I would pay some for that.
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by ducuboy 11y ago
That's too much work for $10k.
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Means that the karma system is good. Anyone can point out what are the features that can be unlocked with more karma? I'd like to know what I'm missing.
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by ducuboy 11y ago
I'm using http://svven.com It discovers the people that tweet same links as I do, and gives me what else they tweet. Disclaimer: I built it.
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Did he? Well I applied for YC Fellowship and didn't make it. That was a pitty also given the naming coincidence - "fellowship" is the core concept in Svven. http://youtu.be/iQx-e4KPNaE
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by ducuboy 11y ago
This is another great point! Twitter just doesn't offer any incentive to tweet interesting stuff, besides the vanity features (stars/favs/likes/whatever they just introduced). Svven gives you a good incentive to do so. T
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Yes! Twitter requires too much work to be useful! Sorry for the plug, but this is exactly how http://svven.com can help. New user tweets a couple of links - gets other people that tweeted same links - and also the other links th
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Hey thanks, good to know. That's true, bad wording from my part, I was just trying to discuss Twitter as a service rather than Twitter as a business.
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Did I say something wrong? Why the down vote here?
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Yes, if you have a lot of time on your hands..
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by ducuboy 11y ago
not sure that the 'vast confusion' is why people use it.. I think that this confusion is more the reason why adoption and retention are not that great. Besides this, I think Twitter is the most valuable social network to date, you
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Besides the "Twitter as a business" discussion.. You guys here on Hacker News don't seem to fancy Twitter so much and I wonder why..
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by ducuboy 11y ago
Hey thanks for the question! Svven is quite different from Flipboard, it may seem more like Nuzzel but it's different from that as well. Lemme explain.. IMO Flipboard is a beautiful RSS and social reader where users subscribe to vari

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