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TwitHot: The hottest links on twitter (my latest web app, feedback appreciated)

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You might make your list easier to read by not displaying the full url. Try dropping the http:// prefix and query string data. Just display the domain and the page title. Here's what I mean:

#1 www.youtube.com (YouTube - Alanis Morrisette "M Humps" video)

#2 triqqr.de/ (triQQr)

#3 www.digg.com (Digg - Using Apple's 24 yr old Lisa for Real Work)

#4 news.bbc.co.uk (BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Relative Charged over Ellie death)

I think you'll increase readibility by using that kind of format. That said, I think it's a good idea. What kind of interest are you getting?

I guess my advice is chopped liver? ;)

I like your advice and I'll be taking it soon but right now I'm busy fighting some nasty bugs in the backend :)

Feedback (MO, please take with a grain of salt): Anything that enables twitter in any fashion should be avoided like the plague.

That being said your app might have potential. Right now it's just a source of information... maybe add some voting or comments to keep people on your site a little longer.

Thanks for the feedback.

The idea was to see if I could avoid the problems of digg et all by not having votes/comments. Instead it listens passively to twitters public timeline.

A 'vote' is cast every time a url is mentioned in a twitter and a 'comment' is what is said around the url in the twitter message. I'll add 'comments' soon.

My issue would be, aside from a passing interest on what people are talking about... Why would I visit?

Perhaps a list of popular twitter people? Something to make people want to keep visiting...

A list of popular twitter people already exists, see: twitterholic.com.

Your right, I would need to work on the value proposition.

same reason people are interested in popurls or the NYTimes' most-emailed-articles.. it's a filter. Throw up some google ads...

If there weren't horrible privacy implications, I'd be curious to see what would happen if AIM or gTalk mined their IM traffic and threw up the most popular/IM'ed links...

I'd like to see sortable views. Full links vs domains. I found myself filtering the links trying to spot new domains which would lead me to new things i haven't seen - kinda like how i got to emilys hub to just see what new 2.0s have popped up.

It'd be interesting a tag cloud view or word frequency count, kinda like that other site i saw where you can read whats on peoples minds in twitter the past min, hour, day etc.

I like the idea of at a glance views of twitter data since it so fleeting.

re: frequency count for words; Check out http://twitter.isite.net.au/twittering

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