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Review my project: TweetSip, Reddit/HN for your Twitter links

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22 pointsjamiequint23 comments

This needs a public-facing page for everyone's votes (wait a minute…). Let them see and interact before allowing access. Right now, nobody will use it because the splash page gives no indication of what the actual application is like or how much activity is behind the login wall.

You're kinda right here...

What would you suggest for the public page. Internally everyone's page is different. Maybe a screenshot?

Maybe make an account that follows people you consider interesting (celebrities, web thinkers, etc.), and show the results for that user.

I agree that a screenshot of some sort would be nice even if it is just generic links posted by celebrities and the such. Another interesting feature to implement if it isn't already (I don't use twitter so I can't really try this out) would be to use a similar system to digg/delicious/hackernews/reddit in showing how many people have posted a certain link (i.e. upvoted) or having the ability to sort by popularity of links

The site seems not to recognize URLs that use IDN and/or unicode (e.g. http://✿.ws/beauty )

Here's a list of lots of Twitters users using some of them from our service, tinyarro.ws:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%9E%AF...

I wasn't able to log in. I went to your site, clicked the "get started" button, and went to Twitter to log in.

Once I logged into Twitter no link was given to go back to your app. I then tried going back to tweetsip.com and refreshing the page, but each time when I tried to continue I was again asked to log into Twitter. I could find no way to make it work.

I'm using the Firefox alpha (Shiretoko), so it could be me. But I'd double-check the process after you've logged out of Twitter, cleared cookies and cache, etc.

Sounds like a cool idea though.

I really like the idea. You need to work on icon display, though because some are huge: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png

and for long tweets, it's causing the lines to wrap oddly.

I think it makes sense to have the default page show the site in action (below a big "log in" banner). Perhaps displaying the top 100 Twitterers? http://wefollow.com/top

This should be fixed now, try a Shift+refresh to update CSS

The large pic stuff works great now. Still getting the "too much text causes the floats to misalign" problem sometimes: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png

Honestly, I am wary of anything that proxies credentials, and I agree with kaiuhl in that it is even less inviting due to lack of information or screenshots of whatever tweetsip might be. cf. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000953.html

It doesn't proxy credentials, it uses oAuth.

Fair enough, but perhaps you should make that clearer ("[1] Log on at twitter.com") for the less swift among us like me. :)

Tried logging in... Twitter said somebody already used that token. Then it loaded a page with "OK, you've denied Tweetsip access to interact with your account!"

Something broken here...

Interesting, perhaps a twitter oAuth issue? I'm using the stock version of the twitter-auth plugin http://github.com/mbleigh/twitter-auth/tree/master

I would ask the twitter api list about this http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk

I realize this is a bit obvious, but you have to find a way to expand the project beyond twitter. Otherwise they change the api and you're smoked.

So points = number of tweets of a link? If so, it is HN/Reddit without the voting.

I debated myself over this. If someone tweets a link isn't an implicit vote (similar to voting on HN). I guess I should make it auto-voted up so you can't get double points (one for tweeting and one for voting up)

Interesting. Did you make this after Fred Wilson asked for it a couple days ago?

I was actually started making it a week or so before he said that. Seeing his tweet made me finish it sooner than I probably would have otherwise though.

What is the difference between this and actual Twitter?

This is just the links, not all tweets. Also discussion is with all people who have seen the story in their feed instead of just the people you follow.

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