waylonflinn

Cool solution. Reminds me of the Flow-Based programming movement happening in the node community. http://noflojs.org

It's also interesting to consider why we don't actually build more tools this way (generalizing the Unix philosophy). Some Real Talk about that here: http://memerocket.com/2006/12/01/the-unix-tools-philosophy-t...

I think that part of the problem here is a perspective created by the previous abuses of an activity. That activity is advertising. It isn't inherently bad to attempt to reach out to someone with something they might think is cool. The problem is, historically, the things advertisements show us suck. Because of this, we automatically associate attempts to connect a person with something they might be interested in to be bad if the attempt is initiated by the producer of the good or service.

There are good reasons for this, but it it's still a generalization. Like all generalizations, it isn't always true. It might be the case that this service actually provides value to both parties: the person with the good or service initiating the activity and the person who is made aware of it. This is the definition of a win-win interaction. The only real way to determine the quality of this service is to try to measure whether value is being created on both sides.

I'd like to tweak your final question (with the assumption that this sort of thing could, someday, provide value).

"How would you feel if every single service provider you were interested in finding were to favorite all of your tweets to get your attention."

I'm not suggesting that the technology is there yet, but the future is a big place.

This is a fantastic idea. Cultural fit as selection criteria is more appreciated than it used to be, but still underrated.

This nails it. I'll do this next time I need to recruit.