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Quotably- new website makes following twitter conversations easy

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This was a weekend project. Let me know what you all think if you have any questions.

-Ben

Looks well done, nice job.

I really like the size decrease as the conversation goes deeper. Great UI touch.

Is there no way to index old content?

It actually is possible to index old content, so I may do that. Thanks!

You made techcrunch, congrats!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/23/quotably-the-perfect-tw...

you just made it on techcrunch. good job.

Congratulations! With your tool, I can finally understand some of my twitter-centric friends and acquaintances.

And most importantly, Thank you for demonstrating the power of a well-executed concept (and showing that it is possible to build something interesting and useful in a weekend.

I just threw it up on twitter... it got a big thumbs up and shoutout from Scoble.

edit: and Leo Laporte, and Cali Lewis... I hope you can handle the coming traffic.

I think it is a good idea. Contact http://twitter.com/help/contact and let them know. They usually post twitter tools on their blog, they might post your tool.

example feeds:

http://quotably.com/TechCrunch http://quotably.com/davewiner http://quotably.com/Ross

note, there are also RSS feeds for anyone's conversations, just add a .rss to the end of the URL. ie: http://quotably.com/Ross.rss

Less useful but related idea: twitterfight. When two people send a bunch of direct messages to one another, that suggests a potential fight. So one day I hacked together a yahoo! pipe to highlight twitter battles. The trouble was that polite conversations kept getting through my filters. Short of manually cleansing the data, I concluded there was no utility. Smart work, Ben, on fixing the larger problem of twitter threading.

Very cool. One thing I noticed is that it has "all" messages posted, including ones the user may have deleted off of their Twitter feed... Seems that once it is sent out into the Twittosphere, you can't actually retract the message, even by "deleting" it. So, this makes for an interesting way to see everything ;)

I'd like a page that lists all the updates from those that I'm following (like a standard Twitter client) but with a link to expand the conversation around each update

Very well done!

It seems a little iffy on associations of tweets as replies... but I guess that's the nature of twitter.

yeah, unfortunately it is. At present it uses the same threading algorithm as twitter does, namely: if there's an @username in a tweet, assume it's responding to the last tweet of that user. I may look to do something smarter down the road.. we'll see.

here's an idea. Make a message to @B from A be a reply to the last message from B to @A if any.

the issue is time decay. The last point in that conversation shouldn't be the parent of a new conversation N hours later.

Time decay might be a factor, but I think you'll get better results than making everything be a reply to the last update from that user. Once you find out what the magical N number is you can throw that in as well.

Cool. Simple. Clean. Thumbs up.

Really cool site!

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