DISQUS

Nick Halstead · 1 year ago

Thanks for that Louis, although this is a double edge sword for us, as although its nice for it to be back up again its difficult to plan a path given the unreliability of twitter - our main thought really is that we will start aggregating more than one service - so we will include Plurk + identi.ca if we can.

We did actually do a lot of extra development for tweetmeme during the XMPP outage, this included

1) aggregating images / videos - so that that thumbnails are including beside stories
2) Authority levels for twitter users - Based upon the number of times a particular user is the first to mention a paricular url they would gain 'kudos' and then we rank stories according to the users kudos..

But because of all the work in switching interfaces we have not merged this stuff back in. But now we are up and running you will hopefully see some big changes, as currently the interface is now looks rubbish because of the number of people mentioning a particular URL.

The last problem is spam, this is becoming very serious on twitter, there are a number of services trying to help which we will be investigating integrating with, but we also have a few ideas ourselves on how to combat it.

stewart mercer · 1 year ago

http://memegator.com (which tracks twitter memes from "specially selected tweeters" :) kept on running - it may not be as comprehensive as the services in your article, but at least it kept going when XMPP was turned off!

I'm sure that the http://laconi.ca / http://Identi.ca community *won't* have a cold war with its users and developers in the same way ...

Just my 2 pence!

@stewbagz