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TweetSum - calculate the Douche-Bag Index of your followers on Twitter

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Hmm, now I wonder if we can calculate the Douche-Bag rating of the guy narrating the video - honestly, I just wouldn't trust putting my details into that site after having watched the video.

I know they say "we don't store your info", but I'm not 100% convinced.

Anyway, this might be a worthwhile if it was part of a twitter client itself, like an adobe air app.

Yeah, I think that video is an example of (good intended ?) sarcasm gone wrong. I'm sure the creator wanted to convey a feeling of "fun-ness", but instead I feel that it just diminishes the validity of his app.

I tried this, and the results were useless. I do have a queue of people that want to follow me that I haven't followed back yet, and it seems like this tool would help. However, obvious spammers like "ebaytochina" had scores of 100%, where as members of my family were near the bottom of the list. I don't understand what the DBI is (other than a database module for Perl), so I don't see how it can help me.

Anyway, it's kind of sad that people think that this is their path to "fuck you" money.

The higher the rating, the more of a douchebag they are. Plus, from what I know about the project it's not something they're trying to make money on -- they're having fun.

There's an article about the creators on Seattle 2.0 - http://www.seattle20.com/blog/Startup-Profile-TweetSum.aspx

  Plus, from what I know about the project it's not something they're trying to make money on

I disagree after having read the terms of use and privacy policy.

Here are some gems.

- In addition, from time to time we may collect personal information that you provide in connection with participation in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, games, promotional offers, and other activities on the Site.

- we also will collect your credit card and billing information.

- contact you about our or a third party's services, products, activities, special events or offers

Given the tone of what they plan to do with your information once they've collected it, this isn't a site I'd sign up for.

I wish Twitter would put in the new follower mail notification the amount of followers vs. following; 10 to 100 someone worth following, while 1000 to 10 not worth following back as they are most likely a spammer!

Oh great, another pointless Twitter application that needs my password.

not sure if the guy(s) who wrote this is/are here, but I don't think this should need my pass.

You can fetch someone's followers without the pass. (I've done it.)

In Ruby, it would be (from a working Sinatra app that I really need to get deployed):

    Twitter::Base.new('username', 'password').all_followers_for(params[:user1])

oh, I guess they need it for following/unfollowing. but there should be a passwordless version that just shows everyone's douchebag index

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