Comments on: Building communities from Twitter posts http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/ Inside Online Media Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:29:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Victor Gil http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-197438 Victor Gil Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:25 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-197438 Hi Matt, First of all, kidtwitts doesn't work :( You said: "I set it up on a domain at Dreamhost [...] and then pumped the RSS feed I just made into it." Could you explain how you did it, please? Congratulation for your post. It's really inspiring :) Thanks in advance Hi Matt,

First of all, kidtwitts doesn’t work :( You said: “I set it up on a domain at Dreamhost [...] and then pumped the RSS feed I just made into it.” Could you explain how you did it, please? Congratulation for your post. It’s really inspiring :) Thanks in advance

]]> By: Mike Grishaver http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-159253 Mike Grishaver Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:56:26 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-159253 Totally agreed. The human touch is the key. Mmmm... humans Totally agreed. The human touch is the key. Mmmm… humans

]]> By: Matt McAlister http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-154353 Matt McAlister Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:21:31 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-154353 Like the blog search idea, Mike. On a quick scan I haven't found a good slice of blog post content that would work, but there's probably a way to make that work somehow. The quality problems with Twitter seem to come in waves. It wouldn't be much work to monitor what comes in, but somebody needs to go in there and kill the totally irrelevant stuff which is well over half the posts, perhaps as much as 60-70%. Then there's another 20-30% that isn't about things that kids have said. It just needs a human touch. Like the blog search idea, Mike. On a quick scan I haven’t found a good slice of blog post content that would work, but there’s probably a way to make that work somehow.

The quality problems with Twitter seem to come in waves. It wouldn’t be much work to monitor what comes in, but somebody needs to go in there and kill the totally irrelevant stuff which is well over half the posts, perhaps as much as 60-70%. Then there’s another 20-30% that isn’t about things that kids have said. It just needs a human touch.

]]> By: Mike Grishaver http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152905 Mike Grishaver Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:56:20 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152905 Got to spend some more time on KidTwits tonight. Interesting to me that you don't like the quality of the posts, is that because they're not all necessarily funny? Because I think your system catches a lot of pretty good content, it seemed to match the description on the site quite well, "children's best quotes and phrases every day from twitter." Have you thought about pulling in blog posts? Maybe a Google Blog Search feed for exact phrase like <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&ctz=480&c2coff=1&btnG=Search+Blogs&as_epq=my+son+said&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=a&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=8&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2009&lr=&safe=active" rel="nofollow">"my son said"</a>? Google Blogs is probably actually worse than Twitter in terms of quality, there may be several ways to extend the site/idea through other open communities, but it seems the search capability has to be really precise or people need to do a lot of curating for something this niche and yet abstract. Great post and very cool experiment, thanks Matt. Got to spend some more time on KidTwits tonight.

Interesting to me that you don’t like the quality of the posts, is that because they’re not all necessarily funny? Because I think your system catches a lot of pretty good content, it seemed to match the description on the site quite well, “children’s best quotes and phrases every day from twitter.”

Have you thought about pulling in blog posts? Maybe a Google Blog Search feed for exact phrase like “my son said”?

Google Blogs is probably actually worse than Twitter in terms of quality, there may be several ways to extend the site/idea through other open communities, but it seems the search capability has to be really precise or people need to do a lot of curating for something this niche and yet abstract. Great post and very cool experiment, thanks Matt.

]]> By: Mike Grishaver http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152866 Mike Grishaver Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:18:02 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152866 FYI, SocialSite widgetmaker is at http://www.thingfo.com. FYI, SocialSite widgetmaker is at http://www.thingfo.com.

]]> By: Mike Grishaver http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152865 Mike Grishaver Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:17:33 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152865 Really cool, Matt. For a more automated approach and less coding, you could set something up with my SocialSite widgetmaker. (ping me for an invite code) You can set up custom Twitter searches, but also hit all the other major web2 feeds and API's -- flickr, youtube, delicious, etc. Right now, content comes back in widget. Soon, many more killer features. Hope you like. -Mike PS -- I love what you did with the ratings, gotta ad something like that to my system Really cool, Matt. For a more automated approach and less coding, you could set something up with my SocialSite widgetmaker. (ping me for an invite code)

You can set up custom Twitter searches, but also hit all the other major web2 feeds and API’s — flickr, youtube, delicious, etc.

Right now, content comes back in widget. Soon, many more killer features. Hope you like. -Mike

PS — I love what you did with the ratings, gotta ad something like that to my system

]]> By: Matt McAlister http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152786 Matt McAlister Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:07 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152786 Good idea, Sarah. I added it. Let's see what happens. Good idea, Sarah. I added it. Let’s see what happens.

]]> By: Sarah Bourne http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152721 Sarah Bourne Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:58:58 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152721 I love this idea - I've gotten many a chuckle from "kid twits". May I suggest you try adding "toddler" to the mix? You'd pick up gems like this one: wryredhead Dog pooped in the corner where Xmas tree previously stood. Toddler cried: Christmas tree GONE! POOP! Pretty much sums today up for everyone. @sarahebourne I love this idea – I’ve gotten many a chuckle from “kid twits”. May I suggest you try adding “toddler” to the mix? You’d pick up gems like this one:
wryredhead Dog pooped in the corner where Xmas tree previously stood. Toddler cried: Christmas tree GONE! POOP! Pretty much sums today up for everyone.

@sarahebourne

]]> By: nate koechley http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152552 nate koechley Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:53:32 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152552 Thanks for the write-up, Matt. A cool read. To get a higher quality content pull, perhaps search for "'son said' AND 'RT'" so you end up with the subset that somebody else has already "voted" for. Guess it might shrink the pool too much, but it would take advantage of the RT = voting nature already emerging on Twitter. The #kidtwits hashtag idea isn't bad either, but you'd look even more of the 140 chars. Thanks again for sharing. Thanks, Nate Thanks for the write-up, Matt. A cool read.

To get a higher quality content pull, perhaps search for “’son said’ AND ‘RT’” so you end up with the subset that somebody else has already “voted” for. Guess it might shrink the pool too much, but it would take advantage of the RT = voting nature already emerging on Twitter.

The #kidtwits hashtag idea isn’t bad either, but you’d look even more of the 140 chars.

Thanks again for sharing.

Thanks,
Nate

]]> By: Twitter_Tips http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2009/01/03/304/building-communities-from-twitter-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-152517 Twitter_Tips Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:59:26 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/?p=304#comment-152517 Promote the use of a hashtag to everyone you find and then include the hashtag. Over time, your hit rate will rise, or you will get enough hashtags that you can drop the search. Promote the use of a hashtag to everyone you find and then include the hashtag. Over time, your hit rate will rise, or you will get enough hashtags that you can drop the search.

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