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Tyler · 1 year ago

looks promising

sull · 1 year ago

i've been doing some thinking and experimenting with links in tweets myself. so this is of interest to me.

i'm not sure i like the approach being taken here. i can think of simpler ways to accomplish this. but i will give it a run before continue to judge.

one project i recently put out there that takes into consideration links that are within tweets is tweetshots.com. primarily it is meant to be used with a tumblr site. tweetshots are tweet screenshots.
the service can send the tweetshot to your tumblr site along with any links found in the tweet so they can be clicked and followed. can also send to email addresses.

i was preparing to build a new app focused on tweet links but have started to see more existing services that are handling this, which is cool because i agree that links sent into the twittersphere are valuable and worth exploiting in interesting ways.

morganb · 1 year ago

sull - thanks for your feedback. i'd love to hear your feedback on easier ways to implement this as I'm in complete agreement with you that there are so many links that are kicked around everyday that have tons of value if more people could get access to them.

sull · 1 year ago

hey morgan,

the next step might be to automate your existing approach, not necessarily change it.
so make the "d twsm category type your message here" happen seamlessly in background instead of depending on a user to manually send the message in this format.

you could build a bookmarklet and/or a form on your site homepage to handle submissions.
you would need to authenticate the submitter, however. at least if you want to continue to log who the twitter user is that has passed along the link to your service. maybe that's not as important and just getting the links/tweets should be the only priority. but i do think the submitter should be exposed (optionally?). so you would need to use the twitter api to authenticate the user before submission, else it would be an anonymous contribution.

i get links in tweets by scanning the tweet and parsing out the links. so you could consider such an approach yourself and then the users would only need to pass you the tweet url. although their would be some implications with tweets containing multiple links. that is solved by parsing the tweet first and letting the user select which link they want to submit to tweetsmart.com.

morganb · 1 year ago

hey sull,

thanks so much for the thoughtful response. i'm at work now so i'll digest
it all. thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with me - i really
appreciate it.

morgan

morganb · 1 year ago

Thanks Louis for covering TweetSmart and for your readers who are checking us out. We'd love to get your feedback on how we can improve the service. We just want to bring some of the amazing links shared everyday on Twitter to the surface for more folks so the more feedback on how we can accomplish it the better.

Thats a nice web found · 1 year ago

Thats a nice web found

Donnie Berkholz · 1 year ago

I really like the idea, but it's too much work. I'd rather just use a hashtag or some key phrase that you could track through Summize. I don't want to duplicate my public post in a dm.

morganb · 1 year ago

thanks donnie - we'll look in to an easy way to do that. great feedback