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Follow @duckduckgo then tweet '@duckduckgo diff' or '@duckduckgo diff -popular', which does something like...

diff friends friends/friends | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

I looked for this functionaliry last night (http://twitter.com/yegg/status/2259409150) and again this morning, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. So I hacked it together myself!

Updated: you need to follow @duckduckgo for it to work (so I can send you a DM).

Cool, though I must say your option naming bugs me. a flag like "-popular" suggests adding/using "popular", not removing it. An irrelevant nitpick, but I was compelled ;)

Np. I was thinking -popular as in "minus popular."

I wrote a quick Ruby script awhile back which provides the same function (without having to follow @duckduckgo):

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/expand-your-twitter-netwo...

It's still faster for me to follow @duckduckgo, DM, and then unfollow.

Turns out my results were pretty disappointing. Sigh. I guess my extended network is just not that interesting.

Did you try -popular and -popular -15 ?

I already unfollowed. I'm not willing to try it multiple times. I am not an earlyvangelist.

I could be persuaded if emailed a personal apology from the founder.

apology for what?

He's providing a free service that you tried and didn't like.

I'm a customer, a potential user of duck duck go; he didn't build it out of charity. By making it TERRIBLE, he is alienating me. He also wasted my time.

I want to know about friends I may have missed.

Specifically: Friends of mine's friends who are following me and I'm not following them back. (Defining "friend" as a reciprocal follow relationship)

Here's the first 25 (email me if you want the rest): @JasonCalacanis @kevinmarks @Scobleizer @loic @tonysphere @MParekh @brianoberkirch @dangillmor @steverubel @rafer @bijan @seth @LindaStone @iankennedy @DonMacAskill @VCMike @louisgray @Chad_Hurley @mathewi @austinhill @m2jr @vanderwal @fromedome @dburka @rklau

Exactly what I wanted.

I don't recognize a few names, but those I do recognize are all people I know. Absurdly accurate.

I was another person looking for this feature: https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057

I have been playing around with what Gabriel built, it's interesting, here are some of the queries I tried:

- @duckduckgo diff

- @duckduckgo diff -popular

- @duckduckgo diff -25

- @duckduckgo diff -popular -10

The last time this type of thing came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801) I decided to use it to help me learn some shell scripting:

    join <(twidge lsfollowing | sort) <(twidge lsfollowers | sort) -v 1

I tried using diff and reducing the sorts but couldn't make it clean. I am a beginner. Any suggestions?

Why would a search engine do this as part of the same brand/domain?

Can somebody tell me how this is related to the search engine?

Quick q: Have you heard of duckduckgo before this post?

I think it's a clever trick to get more followers. It's a good idea, really.

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