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Show HN: We made an app for managing your Twitter favorites

faavorite.com

24 pointscsswizardry16 comments

Oh boy, finally! I've been looking for a Twitter Favorites-manager for a long, long time. Glad finally someone is addressing the problem.

The overall usability is a bit weird (but based on your poll I wasn't the only one - 85% also said the same :)) but hey, it's already 10x better than any other alternative.

Hope you guys continue to develop the product and find creative ways to make a business out of it.

Thanks for the great comment! We’re really excited about faavorite and we’re thrilled to have you on board :D

Also guys—anyone reading this who’s signed up—if you have any non-tech Twitter friends you might want to invite that’d be awesome! A quick glance over the site should tell you that the majority of users so far are web-dev types and we’d really like to diversify sooner rather than later!

Cheers, Harry

Great App! I favorite tweets for reading them later, but with the tagging, seems like I can expand on that.

Suggestion -- I can now only see 3 tweets on the screen (1920x1080), because of all extra buttons/text/tags. Is there a way to collapse ?

Thanks! That’s a great question, we need to ponder that because faavorites do take up a lot of space because of all the other data they carry. Perhaps a toggle between all open and all closed…?

I'd like an "Express View" like that too, to get more on the screen. Maybe smaller text in each too.

Your site is claiming I have 792 Favorites (Twitter won't enumerate). Will all those be able to import?

Sure thing, we can grab all of those (unless any were authored by a protected user).

EDIT: If you have a particularly large amount of favorites, faavorite will put you on a drip-feed import where we just grab them 200 at a time. This means you can still look around the app (or go make a coffee, or go to bed, or anything) and we’ll just grab them for you until we get all of them.

Possibly of additional interest is a writeup of the tech stack powering faavorite.com which somebody submitted a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802872 :)

I have to give the faavoriteapp crew a big thumbs up vote. Excellent for those of us who use Twitter to track things & people we want to bookmark for later reference. Great design, use it often.

I am quite a regular user of faavorite, it gives me a reason to favourite tweets which beforehand was pretty useless!

not to be a jerk, but organize is spelt incorrectly in your title tag. should be 'organize' not 'organise'

We’re English so it’s hard to balance the two; we used ‘favorite’ as that’s what they’re called on Twitter but proper English has crept in in places. We’ll probably move over to all American–English at some point.

Cheers! H

-ize or -ise are often style matters and not spelling errors.

(http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse)

(http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/)

Really Cool! . a little Marketing brushup and you'll go a long way.!

Thank you!

> a little Marketing brushup and you'll go a long way

This is where we’re struggling at the moment; we’re just a couple of devs on a hobbyist app right now. The next ‘sprint’ we’re hoping to dedicate to marketing and ideas and the like :)

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