I Have a Secret: Hyperix is crawling Twitter …
Posted by: Marc Boucher in Search Engine Technology
I have a secret, for the last couple months as a side project we’ve been crawling Twitter with the idea to create a small niche vertical search of tweets. But the more I come across cools applications like Twitterholic, Tweetstats, Twubble, Tweet Scan, twemes etc. the more I think we can do more with our data. So my question to anyone caring to answer is; If you had a rockin application you’d like to see built for Twitter, what would it be?
You never know, we might just build it.
Some email replies:
From John Benac iPhone voice recognition app that converts short voice recording to Twitter post .
Chad Udell wrote: How about a tool that graphs trends in meme/buzzwords used in tweets against other social sites or networks that have tagging or apis that could allow you to have that insight (digg, flickr, facebook, reddit, stumble, etc)?
Rohit Kumar wrote: I am not particularly familiar with what all is already out there for twitter, but i know the basic twitter concept.
People really like the self discovery websites on the internet. A clear example is the success of all these websites which run simple little survey that a user can fill up and know what kind of a “matrix character” or “fall color” etc. they are.
Based on this observation, I suggest: A personality classifier or mood categorizer based on an individual’s twitter feed could be quite popular.
Whole social networks or communities can be built around personality classifiers as there is a certain group thing related to this because a personality is common and relative to others.
Coupling with a visualization tool suggested by Chad (Udell) goes well with this concept. However, i dont think a trend visualization by itself does much for a non-researchy user as i have seen with some very cool blogging trend visualization systems.
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April 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’d like to see an applications that groups communities.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
With something as simple yet powerful as Twitter, it’s hard to know what kind of applications you could do (of course, afterwards it’ll be obvious).
Certainly I’d like to be able to search entire database of tweets, both mine and others. Sometimes I want to find an old tweet of my own. I’ve had some success with Google, but really the tools I’ve found only give you recent results.
Also, some kind of augmentation of profiles with tags, etc., so you can find folks twittering about your interests.
Finally, some kind of filtering, so you could receive only the sorts of tweets that you’re interested in, either from certain people or from anyone. This sounds like a difficult thing to get working properly unless there were tags for each tweet.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Mark,
A buddy of mine from work (@thomasurie) built a little web-app that twitters the location of the ISS. Check it out by following @Space_Station.
I just joined the OnOrbit.com site, and once I get home from Web2Expo, I’ll start looking at ways I could contribute to it.
Cheers,
Frank
@FrankSnyder